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Re:Judge blasts Waymo v. Uber lawyers, delays trial until De... by woodandsteel on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:59PM (#15396939)
> I think when Waymo got into this case, it thought it was going to go into the files and find an exact duplicate of the Waymo files. As it turns out, the product is dissimilar in a lot of ways.

It was a quite reasonable assumption on Waymo's part, given that Uber and Levandowski met secretly for months before he left Waymo, he stole all those files from Waymo, and then Uber payed him 680 million for a startup.

And the only way Waymo could find out for sure what had happened was bring a lawsuit. Or do you think Waymo should have just taken Uber's word that it hadn't done anything illegal?

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Re:Judge blasts Waymo v. Uber lawyers, delays trial until De... by azylman on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @07:19PM (#15397050)
That's a quote from the judge, not something that I said. The judge also doesn't make any value judgement about whether or not their assumption was reasonable, so I'm not sure what or who you're arguing against.
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Re:Judge blasts Waymo v. Uber lawyers, delays trial until De... by Danihan on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @07:22PM (#15397064)
Why does he have to be arguing against something..? he's just saying that Waymo's legal machinations were rational based on what they knew at the time.
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Re:Judge blasts Waymo v. Uber lawyers, delays trial until De... by azylman on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @07:26PM (#15397088)
> the only way Waymo could find out for sure what had happened was bring a lawsuit. Or do you think Waymo should have just taken Uber's word that it hadn't done anything illegal?
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