Rabu, 05 September 2012

Judge Has Given Up Looking for Shills in Oracle vs. Google Lawsuit


The judge presiding the Oracle vs. Google lawsuit has said that he's given up trying to find any commentators on the case that any of the two companies may have paid, in other words a shill or a sock puppet.

He's satisfied with the answers he's gotten so far and said he wouldn't pursue the matter anymore.

The judge said that he would "take no further action regarding the subject of payments by the litigants to commentators and journalists and reassures both sides that no commentary has in any way influenced the Court’s orders and ruling save and except for any treatise or article expressly cited in an order or ruling."

A few weeks ago, the Oracle vs. Google lawsuit took a turn for the strange with the judge asking the two sides to reveal any blogger, employee, scholar or anyone else who may have commented on the case while also getting money from either of the two companies.

The first time around, Oracle revealed blogger Florian Mueller was paid as a consultant for a period during which he frequently wrote about the lawsuit.

Google though said it hadn't paid anyone and provided a list of people who had received grants or donations from the company, or who had made money from AdSense.

The judge was not pleased and asked Google to try harder to find people who talked about the case publicly and with whom it had a commercial relationship of any kind.

So Google came up with a new list, digging deep and searching far for any connection.

The list had an intern who went on to work for Ars Technica, TechDirt's Mike Masnik since he did some consulting work for a trade organization of which Google was a part of and Oracle had been at one point, a law professor who consulted the company in another case and so on.

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