Maybe I'm just too cynical.. but it could be true, human stupidity is limitless.
It's real, at least according to ars technica. The author of that article replies to the idea that it's April 1st here.Maybe I'm just too cynical.. but it could be true, human stupidity is limitless.
Ah - so this is an example of:
"We didn't invent it, or the other thing either but, we're going to pretend we did and beat them with lawyers to extort money...because it's obviously legal do so...right?"
"We didn't invent it, or the other thing either but, we're going to pretend we did and beat them with lawyers to extort money...because it's obviously legal do so...right?"
Big Blue of the 1970's - 90's yep... Literal armies of lawyers. More than a few companies found that out the hard way...
but fortunately for us, that army of lawyers occasionally suffered defeats.
(God awful show but...?)
In this case: KILL!!KILL!
unless they've some how come up with brand new evidence I fail to see how this case can get anywhere in the courts given it was pretty much already been found to have no merit.
I'm sure they'll file in the home of the patent troll - the East district of Texas.
Actually, this time it in the District Court of the Virgin Islands, Division of St. Thomas and St. John.
Link to the brief (pdf).
there's gotta be a real dodgy dealing there given both parties are based in the US.
yeah that move was probably as dodgy as $3 bill.
The BVI one of the biggest tax havens going.
as for their software, I couldn't find a copy to play with through fair means or foul.
Looking on the net for images and most come back with the 2 decade old SCO desktop (I had a legel copy of SCO Unix many years ago).
The desktop was ugly as the arse of a rottwieler.
SCO was used for the back end of the Micros-Fidelio Hotel Managment System and I had a client that used it but couldn't afford to the support.
UGGGH.
Can't say i"ve ever heard of the U. S and still seems a strange place to relocate to.
As for Google VS Oracle few would have sympathy for the later especially for what it did to the Sunmicro base.
Country between Mexico and Canada famous the world over for Hollywood, its arrogance, its consumerism and a lot of backward thinking.
Country between Mexico and Canada famous the world over for Hollywood, its arrogance, its consumerism and a lot of backward thinking.
That's what I get for posting on my phone while at the chiropractor's
So how good's that Facebook leak?
