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Oracle would probably sue if Google said something about buying Sun... >“She just blurted out the two numbers that mattered. She just blurted it out,” said Jud
by helthanatos 10y ago
Oracle would probably sue if Google said something about buying Sun...
>“She just blurted out the two numbers that mattered. She just blurted it out,” said Judge Alsup. “If she had had the recipe for Coca-Cola she could have blurted it out in this court right now.”
Knowing revenue isn't exactly the same as knowing a formula. It's odd that Google cares so much.
- sjellis 10y agoI don't think that they care about that so much as making the point that nobody else should think about copying Oracle's tactics. The attorneys for Oracle were remarkably unscrupulous in the way that they conducted their case, IMO, and this is part of the payback, from the judge as well as Google's lawyers.
- twblalock 10y agoGoogle cares because they didn't want the info made public. The judge cares, and everyone else should care, because revealing confidential information in court should never be tolerated, no matter how trivial that information might seem. If people get away with it, it undermines that principle and makes it more likely to happen in the future.
- helthanatos 10y agoInteresting. 5 downvotes and 2 comments... Why only 2 comments