The scary part is that, if they had a jury like the one that hit SAP for $1.3 billion and a judge who didn't reduce that, it might theoretically have been possible. Especially if anyone actually believed Oracle's astronomical damage numbers the way the SAP jury did.

Thankfully, they got a decent judge who won't put up with that nonsense. It looks like they will be left with, at most, a small damage award. And that's assuming they don't keep shooting themselves in the foot while aiming for the moon.

Thanks. I haven't been keeping up.

I've often seen it insinuated that Florian Mueller is paid shill for MS and/or Oracle. I read this in the same forums and circles that once suggested Maureen O'Gara was a paid shill for SCO. Well it turned out they were right about O'Gara:

"And why does SCO owe money to the creditors Maureen O'Gara, Alok Mohan, and a private detective?" http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090913224436712

My question is, has anyone found a link between Florian Mueller and MS or Oracle?

MS paid Mueller for (at least) one study:

Microsoft has commissioned this study.

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/10/study-on-worldwide-u...