Oracle, Google Move To Streamline Java Suit 49
itwbennett writes "Google and Oracle each submitted proposals on Friday to reduce the number of claims in their Java patent infringement lawsuit, which could help bring the case to a speedier conclusion. Earlier this month, lawyers for the two companies gave Judge William Alsup of the US District Court in San Francisco a crash course in Java to prepare him for a claim construction conference."
Fine couture, indeed (Score:4, Funny)
So is a Java suit anything like a Zoot suit? Always wanted one o' them. Will the Gap be selling these?
Re:Lawyers gave a crash course is Java?? (Score:4, Funny)
More poo slinging... (Score:5, Funny)
The last time something like this happened, Adobe acquired Macromedia... It's how large guerrilla's get to know each other.
Re:Lawyers gave a crash course is Java?? (Score:5, Funny)
Surely an Exception course? (Score:3, Funny)
Java apps don't crash they throw exceptions or the JVM dies.
crash course in Java - a Google perspective (Score:5, Funny)
-- Sun --
Imagine a box of Smalltalk.
Imagine someone dropping that box in a festering pit of C. (Not all pits of C are festering. This one is.)
Redefine "API" as "buzzword implementation".
Extend according to what the competition's doing, rather than as may be technically appropriate.
-- Google --
Recall how Microsoft made Java incompatible and how nerds all hated it.
Recall that you are Google and all nerds love you.
Do the same thing.
Watch your market grow to Apple levels of hysteria.
Observe Hank Scorpio [youtube.com] taking over Java.
Take out the flame retardant lawyers, and, in a scenario looking increasingly Monty Python, use them to teach judges Java. ...
Re:More poo slinging... (Score:4, Funny)
Unless, of course, your guerillas also weigh 800 pounds. Sumo guerillas, anyone?
Re:More poo slinging... (Score:4, Funny)
Unless, of course, your guerillas also weigh 800 pounds. Sumo guerillas, anyone?
No no.. A guerrilla should never be weighed in pounds -- That's a currency unit you dolt. They can cost 800 pounds, but no gorilla or guerrilla is worth it's weight in pounds!
The real 800 pound gorilla in the room is that this saying depends on the current exchange rate for gorillas, eh? I can never figure out if that saying refers to an expensive, cheap, or reasonably priced ape. What's the going exchange rate for gorillas these days in Loonies? [wikipedia.org]