Judges can draw on technical experts to help analyze the facts in a given case. It definitely helps be technically literate, but the judge doesn't need to be m

Judges can draw on technical experts to help analyze the facts in a given case. It definitely helps be technically literate, but the judge doesn't need to be making open source commits by night to evaluate the situation fairly. On the other hand, it's not unreasonable to acquire some knowledge for the specific case, but again this can be on the level of a few hours of research (to be able to understand and communicate with the expert), rather than expecting the judge to take the time to become an expert him/herself.