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> I think when Waymo got into this case, it thought it was going to go into the files and find an exact duplicate of the Waymo files. As it turns out, the produ
by woodandsteel 9y ago
> I think when Waymo got into this case, it thought it was going to go into the files and find an exact duplicate of the Waymo files. As it turns out, the product is dissimilar in a lot of ways.
It was a quite reasonable assumption on Waymo's part, given that Uber and Levandowski met secretly for months before he left Waymo, he stole all those files from Waymo, and then Uber payed him 680 million for a startup.
And the only way Waymo could find out for sure what had happened was bring a lawsuit. Or do you think Waymo should have just taken Uber's word that it hadn't done anything illegal?
- azylman 9y agoThat's a quote from the judge, not something that I said. The judge also doesn't make any value judgement about whether or not their assumption was reasonable, so I'm not sure what or who you're arguing against.
- Danihan 9y agoWhy does he have to be arguing against something..? he's just saying that Waymo's legal machinations were rational based on what they knew at the time.
- azylman 9y ago> the only way Waymo could find out for sure what had happened was bring a lawsuit. Or do you think Waymo should have just taken Uber's word that it hadn't done anything illegal?