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My favourite part of the trial was when the judge told Oracle that a high schooler could write rangeCheck[1]. [1] https://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/05/
by nabaraz 10y ago
My favourite part of the trial was when the judge told Oracle that a high schooler could write rangeCheck[1].
[1] https://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/05/16/1612228/judge-to-oracle-a-high-schooler-could-write-rangecheck https://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/05/16/1612228/judge...
- phasmantistes 10y agoThat was from the first time around in this trial, before it was overturned at the Federal Circuit level and sent back to Judge Alsup for a retrial.
- untog 10y agoMy favourite part: Movement to a few minutes of terse explanations, including what the acronym GNU stands for: GNU is Not Unix. “The G part stands for GNU?” Alsup asked in disbelief. “Yes,” said Schwartz on the stand. “That doesn’t make any sense,” http://motherboard.vice.com/read/in-google-v-oracle-the-nerds-are-getting-owned http://motherboard.vice.com/read/in-google-v-oracle-the-nerd...
- legohead 10y agoLesson 1: recursion Lesson 2: See Lesson 1
- typon 10y agoWait till they hear about mutually recursive acronyms like GNU HURD.
- slavik81 10y agoI never realized how entertaining this trial was. Schwartz: "Back in 2009, Android WAS lame." Google atty: "Move to strike, your honor!" https://twitter.com/xor/status/730456825649188865 https://twitter.com/xor/status/730456825649188865
- farcical_tinpot 10y agoYer, it was absolutely hilarious. They had to get a tech guy in to open Java files on a computer. They didn't have an IDE installed on there and there were complaints that there were too many folders!