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Anyone else irked by the keyboard shortcut analogy Google's lawyers keep using? It clearly didn't help them last time they used it. I think if I was a judge I w
by dylan-m 8y ago
Anyone else irked by the keyboard shortcut analogy Google's lawyers keep using? It clearly didn't help them last time they used it. I think if I was a judge I would feel … insulted by such an obvious oversimplification. And the result is both vaccuous and debatable. Keyboard shortcuts aren't perfectly consistent, many people don't actually use them very much anyway, and many more people wouldn't care if they were different between different "computers" (?!) because they only use one and feel lost in the other kinds anyway. Surely Google's team of lawyers, in the space of nine years, can find a better source for analogies here…
- AimForTheBushes 8y agoHow many SCOTUS judges have a technical background? Zero. How many have used copy and paste? Hopefully all of them.
- skh 8y agoThe evidence suggests that they can’t come up with a better analogy. Perhaps there are legal principles at play that prevent them from using something seemingly better. They are smart people. I think a better a question or observation would be, “What prevents them from using X as an analogy?”. Or maybe the case isn’t so clear cut in favor of Google that its lawyers have to traverse a minefield of legal traps and this is the best they can come up with.