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Eggsackerly

Authored by: Wol on Saturday, July 07 2012 @ 06:51 PM EDT

If you know you did wrong, you will very quickly offer a generous settlement
...

If this particular case took place in the UK, it would very much have been in
Google's interest to offer a token "go away and stop bothering us"
settlement.

It would only have taken a letter to the Judge saying "We wish to make a
formal offer of settlement, here's a tenner". And in this case, it would in
the UK have triggered a pretty much AUTOMATIC award of Google's attorney costs
against Oracle.

On the whole, I very much like this system - it is VERY effective at deterring
nuisance lawsuits. On the other hand, it is also pretty effective at detering
"we want justice" type lawsuits :-( (That's "justice" as in
the plaintiff wants answers, not money ...)

Cheers,
Wol

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Eggsackerly - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 09 2012 @ 10:08 AM EDT
- Eggsackerly - Authored by: Wol on Monday, July 09 2012 @ 02:19 PM EDT

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