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A comment on Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement. Parent comment

Re:Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement by xyzzy_plugh on Friday February 09, 2018 @02:57PM (#16343348)
What? Nothing is implied. No one is starting over. Money changes hands and everyone saves face.
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Re:Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement by mbesto on Friday February 09, 2018 @04:17PM (#16343895)
> pledges not to use Waymo's trade secrets

If this statement is indeed true and Uber isn't totally brazen, then yes it would imply that Uber is going to have to seriously clamp down on how it uses the data/IP they got from Otto (which clearly they got from Google/Waymo). Not a lawyer, but that's how I read it.

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Re:Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement by tmh79 on Friday February 09, 2018 @06:07PM (#16344617)
They didn't get any IP from waymo, that is why waymo settled. There is no additional clamping down, they just need to continue to show alphabet that they're not doing anything fishy.
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Re:Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement by mbesto on Friday February 09, 2018 @06:42PM (#16344807)
See my point above. You don't settle if your claim is 100% baseless, so it's very unlikely that no trade secrets were obtained.
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