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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 08 2012 @ 12:48 AM EDT |
I am not a lawyer, so the following might be rubbish:
Maybe the judge wants to figure out why Oracle was going almost nuclear because
of just nine lines of code. I.e. if it was just general stupidity of Oracle, or
a planed campaign, abusing his court room as part of the campaign?
Maybe (yes, I can dream) it is about sanctions?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 08 2012 @ 01:06 AM EDT |
Here is a simple explanation of why the Judge has ordered this:
1) You are allowed to claim anything you like in a court of law and you can't
be sued for slander, defamation, libel etc. as otherwise the legal system would
be completely broken.
2) Journalists are allowed to report anything that happens in a court and they
can't be used for slander, defamation, libel etc. as otherwise freedom of the
press would be completely broken.
3) Oracle appears to have paid 'journalists' to repeat the claims made in court
as fact. Because those claims are now being made outside of court, they don't
have the courts protection against being sued. Because the 'journalist' is
acting as a paid agent of Oracle they are no longer protected by freedom of
the press.
So this isn't a first amendment issue - this is just a did Oracle pay someone to
defame Google issue.
cheers
Danack[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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