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My attitude on Oracle v GoogleSaturday April 28, 2012
[ Update: he fixed the article to put me on the same side as Scott ]

In Dan Farber's recent article on CNET titled "Oracle v. Google: Ex-Sun execs on opposite sides" he got my position on the case totally backwards and totally misinterpreted my comments. Just because Sun didn't have patent suits in our genetic code doesn't mean we didn't feel wronged. While I have differences with Oracle, in this case they are in the right. Google totally slimed Sun. We were all really disturbed, even Jonathan: he just decided to put on a happy face and tried to turn lemons into lemonade, which annoyed a lot of folks at Sun.

Oracle v GoogleMonday April 16, 2012
The slides from the opening of the Oracle v Google court case make interesting reading. Oracle has posted them at http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/features/opening-slides-1592541.pdf Before you read them, put whatever preconceived notions you may have aside. I particularly liked the contrast between slides 56 and 58.