Re:No-fly list takes legal hit
by Stratoscope on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @01:08AM
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Thank you for sharing that. It's now my favorite legal quote.
Never argue with Hacker Judge.
Not quite a hacker judge but certainly the best qualified judge in the system to rule on programming matters.
Got to admire his willingness to learn and his ability to recognize when he needs to learn something before ruling.
Not quite a "hacker judge", but with a mathematics degree and programming experience, maybe "STEM judge"?
Not that we really need labels like that.
I hereby declare Judge Alsup the Patron Saint of Information Technology Law and move his name for immediate canonization by the secret council of hackers.
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In one episode, Oracle's star lawyer... was arguing that Google copied the nine lines of rangeCheck code to accelerate development to gain faster entry into the mobile phone market.
Alsup told Boies, "I have done, and still do, a significant amount of programming in other languages. I've written blocks of code like rangeCheck a hundred times before. I could do it, you could do it. The idea that someone would copy that when they could do it themselves just as fast, it was an accident. There's no way you could say that was speeding them along to the marketplace. You're one of the best lawyers in America --how could you even make that kind of argument?"
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57445082-94/judge-william-a...