<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>It all sounds like something out of a bag scifi movie, you know the kind about corporations taking over the world, and battles are fought over patents and such.<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div>
<div><br>On Aug 16, 2010, at 6:58 AM, Larry Johnson <<a href="mailto:larryfeltonjohnson@gmail.com">larryfeltonjohnson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Stephen R. Blevins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen.r.blevins@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:stephen.r.blevins@gmail.com">stephen.r.blevins@gmail.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
PJ at Groklaw says she's going to follow this case.<br>
> <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100813112" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100813112">http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100813112</a></a><br>
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Stephen R. Blevins<br>
<a href="mailto:stephen.r.blevins@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:stephen.r.blevins@gmail.com">stephen.r.blevins@gmail.com</a></a><br>
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<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all">I was very happy when I saw that Groklaw was taking it up. I've been following the various SCO suits since the beginning, but those suits remind me at this point of nothing so much as a particularly inept zombie, which struggles to its knees only to be knocked on its face by some random passerby. There's not a lot of danger to Linux or the computer technology world left from SCO.<br>
<br>Oracle v Google could have a big impact, though, particularly if other large companies get into a patent trolling war.<br><br>Larry<br><br>-- <br>"I see design standards that don't tell you how to come up with a good design (only how to write it down), employee evaluation standards that don't help you build meaningful long-term relationships with staff, testing standards that don't tell you how to invent a test that is worth running."<br>
<br> Tom DeMarco<br> Slack<br>
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