Barfy

Not butt-ugly, more like “meh”. OTOH that battery time would be a real problem for me.

I’m waiting to see how Oracle gets this spun in the media. Gonna be hard to explain this jury verdict as a huge win for Oracle. But I’m certain they’ll come up with something interesting and absolutely hilarious.

Seems like this is all about trying to make Amazon do what the manufacturers want. How is this different from what the publishers and Apple are being sued for when they colluded to fix prices in their industry?

Wow. Just wow. Awesome article. Thank you Mr. Flatley for your hard work and thank you to the The Verge for supporting the idea.. Keep up the great work folks.

“what led Oracle on this path of self-destruction”?

IMHO, we are watching just one of many battles in a war that proprietary software companies are waging against the open source developers.

If you are the captain of one of these large companies that makes oodles of money by charging people to keep your code a secret, how do you compete against the open and sometimes free alternatives? You can’t innovate because that costs money, hurts your bottom line and frankly is just plain hard to do. You can’t under price it. You can’t buy it and shut it down. The only way left to compete is to litigate and hope your deep pockets will shut down your competition with relatively little “investment”.

Don’t confuse seeking recourse from a jury of your peers for damages you’ve suffered wrongly with a simple business plan. They are two different things and only one is a valid use of the court system. The other is a business plan born of despiration.