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| Authored by: mcinsand on Thursday, June 21 2012 @ 12:43 PM EDT |
Oracle got spanked, although I still think they got off lightly. They had more
than every fair chance to make their case, and what they had was laughable even
before we consider that Sun had blessed Google's actions when Google started
their efforts. For Oracle to be able to cause so much trouble with so little
cause should be criminal. For the parties responsible to not be facing jailtime
is proof that our system is messed up.
People that know tech will not respect Oracle's chances with an appeal, so why
bother? My bet is that it's to keep the shareholders from catching on. To give
up now would be to tip Team Oracle's hand as being empty. Too many investors
might realize that Oracle's leadership has (German) mist for brains. Dragging
it out gives two advantages. First, it will help to solidify an impression among
the gullible or uninformed that Oracle actually believes they have a grief. The
other benefit is that keeping this going puts off the conclusion until after
most of the attention spans have expired. Besides losing, the other bad thing
about this case was that this trial ended so quickly. A lot of people were
still paying attention when the 'infringement' turned out to be a 9 line joke,
the patent issues were tossed, and Judge Alsup publicly dressed down Mr. Boies
for being either clueless or dishonestly ridiculous with his statements.
Anyway, that's my take on it.
Regards,
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 21 2012 @ 12:55 PM EDT |
Here's one definition many will likely be familiar with:
Adjective:
Exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical: "a vast and quixotic
project".
Hmm.... let's clarify one more word, idealistic:
ideal: of or
relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas.
As a
result, it's not necessarily attached to noble situations.
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