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"Everything we've heard about Judge William Alsup tells us he's a guy you don't mess with -- and yet Oracle seems bent on doing precisely that. When the company initially demanded $6.1 billion from Google in recompense for alleged violations of its Java patents, Alsup laughed that figure out of court and suggested $100 million might be closer to the mark. Ellison's crew then came back with a revised claim of $2 billion, which we just knew would lead to another smackdown. Well, here it is: the judge has now cancelled the latest trial date (which had been scheduled for March) and refused to set a new one until the claimant stops using \"improper methodologies\" for assessing damages, which are \"obviously calculated to reach stratospheric numbers.\" Perhaps Oracle should try something more tropospheric?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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