OvG: It's finally (almost) over.
The patent part of the case is
finally
over, with Google acquitted on (almost) all counts.. The happy
part for me is that despite having been on the witness list and
gone through a bunch of prep work with lawyers, I didn't actually
have to testify. Despite all the furor that went into this one, it
went out with a wimper. Court cases are never about right and
wrong, they're about the law and what you can convince a jury of.
For those of us at Sun who felt trampled-on and abused by Google's
callous self-righteousness, I would have preferred a different
outcome - not from the court case as much as from events of years
past.
