Judge to Oracle: "proceed with caution before overreaching again"

Re:Judge to Oracle: "proceed with caution before overreachin... by nkassis on Friday August 05, 2011 @06:12PM (#2852009)

Between 1.4 and 6.1B. That shows Oracle only valued sun for it patents it could use against people like Google (they paid 8B for sun)

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Re:Judge to Oracle: "proceed with caution before overreachin... by eric-hu on Friday August 05, 2011 @07:16PM (#2852197)

The lawyers that come up with these sums don't need a sense of money grounded in the real world. See also: RIAA wants 75 trillion from limewire: http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202486102650

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Re:Judge to Oracle: "proceed with caution before overreachin... by nextparadigms on Friday August 05, 2011 @08:03PM (#2852331)

I wonder if it sounds ridiculous even to them, or they actually believe their own claims.

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Re:Judge to Oracle: "proceed with caution before overreachin... by pyre on Saturday August 06, 2011 @05:46AM (#2853518)

Probably more like a negotiating tactic. The more that they ask for the more the actual amount awarded will be.

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Re:Judge to Oracle: "proceed with caution before overreachin... by rwolf on Friday August 05, 2011 @06:43PM (#2852108)

To be fair, maybe they just wanted to strangle a bunch of popular open source projects. Seeing the life go out of the eyes of Hudson might have been worth a lot of scratch :)

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