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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Denies Google's Request to Appeal Orac... by dd9990 on Monday June 29, 2015 @08:10PM (#9802037)
It's more interesting than that. The engineer who wrote those 9 lines was employed by Sun working on Java APIs before working for Google. According to his testimony it was a "fix later" copy/paste mistake he made when improving Sun's OpenJDK code while working for Google.
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