On 24/05/11 00:59, Dawn Wolthuis wrote: > Oh yeah, this is fun stuff (given that I am not either party, that is). As I > recall from reading a while back, someone left some test code in the google > product that was taken directly from Sun/Oracle code, which greatly > complicated their defense when it was found that this code was deployed. > Oops. That was supposed to be removed before delivery. That poor programmer > in the trenches. He/She/They apparently did not grasp the big picture or > magnitude of deploying such code. --dawn
It's also severely embarrassed Oracle :-) They presented the code to the Judge, saying "Google haven't got a licence". Turns out, iirc, that the code had a Free licence, but the version given to the Judge had the licence information stripped... Rumour has it that the code was actually the output of a decompiler, but that might not be true. Anyways, as far as I can make out, everything was legit but *appeared* illegitimate. And at least some of that *appearance* seems to be deliberate Oracle shenanigans. :-) Oops. Especially as the Judge seems to dislike corporate fun and games :-) Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
