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While they certainly have incentive to downplay revenue for the purposes of paying Oracle, let's not forget that all of the contributing revenue factors would b
by VengefulCynic 15y ago
While they certainly have incentive to downplay revenue for the purposes of paying Oracle, let's not forget that all of the contributing revenue factors would be legally discoverable. I think that we can assume that the numbers contributed in court reflect the revenue fairly accurately - Fortune 500 companies tend to have lawyers whose degrees don't come in specially-marked boxes of cereal. Also, Google has a lot of very good incentives to state their revenue exactly as is legally relevant (albeit, not a penny more, in this case).