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While this is a good story, the headline misses by far the point that the body makes - the only reason this is an open secret is because an Oracle lawyer reveal
by mmastrac 10y ago
While this is a good story, the headline misses by far the point that the body makes - the only reason this is an open secret is because an Oracle lawyer revealed it in public.
A better title might be:
"Google is trying to get Oracle in trouble for revealing confidential figures"
- theDoug 10y agoRight? Something can be a so-called "open secret" but where it is brought up and how it is intended to be used is what is at question here. And arguing for the "heat of argument," is a weird position to take, but I'm sure no lawyer and definitely no Oracle lawyer.
- notyourwork 10y agoThat article was simply hard to read. I kept asking if this was a story or a news article.
- juliand 10y agoEspecially with that animated gif above the fold. I had to scroll to a point where the animation was completely hidden to be able to read comfortably.
- cwillu 10y agoNo kidding: "Unfortunately for Google, those two numbers can be readily found via a website known as Google dot com:" ...followed by two screenshots of searchs for the numbers, both of which only show results with snippets like "according to a transcript of court proceedings from Oracle Corp.'s copyright lawsuit against Google.", "....said in court while disclosing figures Google says shouldn't have been made public", and "Thanks to a lawyer, we know now that Google has made..."