I Worked on the Defense in the Oracle v. Google Case

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:14:03 +0000

Rarely can I reveal the names of my expert witness customers, as most "intellectual property" cases are sealed as a term of their settlement. I generally am under a court order not to divulge my participation, or even the existence of the court order. But the judge in Oracle v. Google has required both companies to reveal "paid bloggers". I was named, but as an expert witness rather than a paid blogger. As it happens, all of the blogging I did about the case was before I was hired, and none of it was complimentary to my customer.

I enjoyed working for Google, what Open Source evangelist wouldn't like being paid legal-specialist rates to defend an Open Source project from a (mostly) proprietary software firm? It's too bad that I didn't get to testify. Google's filing is here.

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