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Between 1.4 and 6.1B. That shows Oracle only valued sun for it patents it could use against people like Google (they paid 8B for sun)
by nkassis 15y ago
Between 1.4 and 6.1B. That shows Oracle only valued sun for it patents it could use against people like Google (they paid 8B for sun)
- rwolf 15y agoTo be fair, maybe they just wanted to strangle a bunch of popular open source projects. Seeing the life go out of the eyes of Hudson might have been worth a lot of scratch :)
- eric-hu 15y agoThe lawyers that come up with these sums don't need a sense of money grounded in the real world. See also: RIAA wants 75 trillion from limewire: http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202486102650 http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202486102650
- nextparadigms 15y agoI wonder if it sounds ridiculous even to them, or they actually believe their own claims.
- pyre 15y agoProbably more like a negotiating tactic. The more that they ask for the more the actual amount awarded will be.