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FBI Watching Oracle-SAP Trial
angry tapir writes "An FBI agent has been in the courtroom each day this week watching the Oracle-SAP trial, suggesting US law enforcement continues to take an interest in the case. SAP said in 2007, when Oracle filed its civil lawsuit against the company, that the Department of Justice had requested documents related to the matter from SAP and its TomorrowNow subsidiary. SAP said at the time that it would 'fully cooperate.' In a court filing in August, SAP said there was an 'ongoing investigation' by the DOJ and the Federal Bureau of Investigation into 'some facts and circumstances that are involved in this matter.'"
""We have an interest in the case," the FBI agent said in court Thursday. He declined to comment further or provide his name."
If he hadn't spent the day talking into his coat sleeve maybe they wouldn't have spotted him.
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He's just there because his boss can't think of any better assignment, and the guy is GS-13.
Exactly! What happened to stories that are actually important? Like what the Queen of England does online?
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An FBI agent watching the courtroom activity might have curbed some of SCO's outrageous behaviour.
Our investigation is complete, and revealed you are in fact boring and just overly paranoid. We would suggest getting out some time at a local Bar/Pub of your choosing. Please feel free to keep the tracking device on your vehicles, and use it should you become too intoxicated to find it.
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That's quite an interesting way to put this... When it comes to SAP, you talk about the company as a whole, but when it comes to Oracle, you talk about Larry as an individual and characterize him as a "douchebag". What's the matter? Can't compare apples to apples?
OK, sure, we can do that. Steve Jobs is a douchebag and so is Larry Ellison. I'm not sure that it is relevant to the story, but you did ask.
The enterprise software industry is starting to resemble the America's Cup yachting competition: a contest ostensibly open to all comers, but in practice there are only a handful of contenders that have the ridiculous sums of money, global scale and access to technology and top talent-for-hire it takes to be truly competitive. It's customary for the egos at the top to be massive, with lots of trash talk between camps. Oh, and better have a big budget for lawyers because a lot of the action takes place in courtrooms.
It's hardly a coincidence that Larry Ellison is a big player in both arenas.
IIRC Jammie Thomas owes 1.5 million for 24 songs.
So how much did SAP copy? The equivalent of 240 songs?
That would be a little harsh. How about 20 songs and a porn video?
The real question for this audience is whether or not we have the right to reverse engineer any devices up our asses.