[gcraig]

Exactly. Here is an example that takes less than a minute:

private int rangeCheck(int x, int y)
{
return (x-y);
}

This simplistic example just tweaks data, something most programmers can do in their sleep. To suggest that a bounds check algorithm takes six months is laughable. That said, why would Google need to rip a limiter from oracle anyway? I have found that plugging in someone else's code can sometimes make a project take longer than if you just hack it together yourself anyway.

[Smedley]

“To suggest that a bounds check algorithm takes six months is laughable.”

Well, now, if you put a million monkeys in a room full of PCs for six months you still wouldn’t likely have a viable rangeCheck algorithm. I believe, however, that those monkeys do constitute Oracle’s programming staff.

[o2bfree]

Its all BS. The judge is full of it.

Using this judge’s logic, a person should be able to go to college and download all their papers, project assignments, and homework submissions from a copyrighted source, turn them in and get full credit for them.

When the student gets found out for cheating and for copyright infringement, this judge thinks they can justifiably claim “it was only an accident.” They should be given the benefit of the doubt, and get chance to recreate their submissions on their own.

Someone at Google made a decision to do what was done. They planned to copy Intellectual Property from Oracle, and they carried out their plan.

I hope Larry Ellison extracts $Billions out of Google!