Posted on 10/14/2020 5:27:27 AM PDT by gattaca
It is reported that Ellison personally owns 36% of the company stock.
Not sure how many friends of Ellison are major stock holders.
I’d say it is very doubtful an unfriendly takeover would be successful.
Maybe. Of late, it seems you can be found guilty of breaking fairly major laws and then being fined a $1 for it, or being outright released.
Now, if the SCOTUS finds against Google, and Google has to pay eight or nine figures, then I’ll be impressed.
Google is going to pay in the billions if not the tens of billions.
Glad to see it happen.
Thanks for posting.
What did RBG say from her deathbed about THIS?
Rutabaga’s Ideas Matter don’t ya know?
NO!
Back in the late 90’s I worked with a guy who was a dead ringer for Bill Gates and got highly paid to make spoof appearances as him. He was even on the cover of “WIRED” magazine spoofing a hip Bill Gates.
He got a gig for Sun Microsystems to appear at their annual stock holders meetings. The gig was to walk out on the stage as BG and claim that Microsoft had just purchased their company. Obviously this was a hostile crowd so it didn’t go over well, until they finally let the joke out of the bag.
Ok, honest question here. If that code was fair game to begin with why was google ever in talks to license it? If they started out planning to pay for it and then changed their minds they are going to have a hard time arguing they never needed to pay to begin with.
It needs to. I despise google. (spelled in lower case letters on purpose)
I just did a search on him. 4 wives, divorced each wife
What about Twitter?
I get the desire to paint Google as bad guys, but they are not in this particular case.
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I GET that what I’m about to say is counter intuitive on it’s face. That said, I despise those leftist/marxist/socialists hate America bastards that run Google so much I STILL hope they get their ass handed to them. Indeed, I’m reminded of the Pennzoil/Texaco case.
Eight-thousand lines of code were lifted from JAVA to build the Android Phone operating system. Google claimed it was too hard to write working code for a smartphone, neglecting to consider Apple, Microsoft, and foreign competitors have done so. Blatant theft! USSC should have passed on this Google appeal, allowed the Oracle win of 2018 to stand.
Oracle is owed a license fee, damages, interest, court costs, and so forth from their win on appeal in 2018.
Sometimes the Court takes a case not because a majority want to reverse the lower court but because it feels the issue is important enough it needs Supreme Court treatment.
Twitter too....but they’re not as powerful as Alphabet or Facebook by a long shot. Parler is growing rapidly. There’s no way somebody could just start another Alphabet or Facebook and compete with those two.
Amazon and Apple need to be taken down as well - especially Amazon.
I would imagine the penalty would be all the gross amount of money google made x 3
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