My Thoughts on Oracle v Google
I suspect if the case was as open and closed and without merit as many are thinking, Oracle wouldn't have bought it.<p>Google aren't some tiny outfit who are going to fold at the first threat.  They have very deep pockets and plenty of lawyers and there is no reason to think that they'd give in easily.<p>Oracle will know this and therefore we can reasonably assume that they have bought this case with the willingness to fight it (and spend the significant amounts of time and money involved in doing so).<p>Certainly if the suspicion is that they spent $7.4bn buying Sun primarily so they could bring this case it seems even more unlikely - you don't cough up that sort of money unless you think your case is really pretty strong.<p>(Incidentally I think the suggestion that this is the primary reason they bought Sun doesn't really add up - it's far too big a gamble and the damages award would have to be vast, way beyond the Microsoft / Sun damages to justify it.  Oracle are a proper company with proper products, generally speaking they're not patent trolls and have better things to do with the money than take this sort of punt.)<p>I'm not saying that they will win it, just that the frequent claims from technologists that their case is without merit fail to explain why a bunch of smart people (because whatever you think of them over this the evidence is that the people running Oracle are not stupid, they are not SCO) with a lot of very smart, very well paid lawyers, were willing to take such a punt when their case is evidently so weak.