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Oracle Not Satisfied With Potential $150,000; Goes Against Judge's Warning
bobwrit writes with news about how the monetary damages in the Google v. Oracle case might shake out. On Thursday, Judge Alsup told Oracle the most it could expect for statutory damages was a flat $150,000, a far cry from the $6.1 billion Oracle wanted in 2011, or even the $2.8 million offered by Google as a settlement. However, Oracle still thinks it can go after infringed profits, even though Judge Alsup specifically warned its lawyers they were making a mistake. He said, "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions." Groklaw has a detailed post about today's events.
GreatBunzinni, real name Rui Maciel, has been using anonymous posts and sockpuppets to accuse nearly 20 people of being employed by a PR firm to astroturf Slashdot, without any evidence. Using his sockpuppets, he mods up these anonymous posts while modding down the accused in order to filter their viewpoints. GreatBunzinni accidentally outed himself as the anonymous troll who has been posting these accusations. For example, he wrote the same post almost verbatim, first using his logged-in account followed by an anonymous post days later. Note the use of the same script and wording.
It turns out GreatBunzinni is a 31-year-old C++/Java programmer from Almada, Portugal named Rui Maciel, with a civil engineering degree from Instituto Superior Técnico and a hobby working with electronics. He runs Kubuntu and is active on the KDE mailing list. Rui Maciel has accounts at OSNews, Launchpad, ProgrammersHeaven, the Ubuntu forums, and of course Slashdot.
Most of the users who Rui targets have done nothing else but criticize Google for something or praise a competitor. Many of them are subscribers who get the first post because subscribers see stories earlier than non-subscribers. After one of Rui's accusations gets posted, the original post receives a surge of "Troll" and "Overrated" moderations from his sockpuppets, while Rui's posts get modded up. Often, additional anonymous posters will appear to give support and receive upmods. At the same time, accused users who defend themselves are modded "Offtopic."
Rui Maciel's contact information
Email: greatbunzinni@gmail.com, greatbunzinni@engineer.com, or rui.maciel@gmail.com
IM: greatbunzinni@jabber.org (the same Jabber account currently listed on his Slashdot account)
Blog: http://rui_maciel.users.sourceforge.net/
Programming projects: http://www.programmersheaven.com/user/GreatBunzinni/contributions
The following accounts have been confirmed to be Rui Maciel, in order of activity. You'll notice that they all share a posting style and often reply to each other:
HarrySquatter
Galestar
GameboyRMH
ZeroSumHappiness
Jeng
scot4875
Nerdfest
TheNarrator
flurp
anonymov
chrb
zidium
NicknameOne
Nicknamename
forkfail
icebike
ilguido
psiclops
Toonol
russotto
rreyelts
symbolset
tl;dr: An Ubuntu fan named Rui Macie
Christ, not this fucking anti-Google troll again. What a worthless repugnant human being. I bet his mother prays he gets hit by a bus, preferably being dragged for thirty miles before being shaken loose, sent careening into a tar pond where, two million years from now, he'll be dug up, recognized as the evil little bastard that he is, and put on display as "Microsoftus uptheassus".
"Psst... Hey pal, you're dying of cancer, and everyone's pretty happy about it."
I know I do, that fucking guy is annoying.
Mod GP up so the assholes at geeknet do something about this guy.
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
Liberals spend all their time diverting attention away from everything else and just focus on the income tax. They also screw with the economy to the point that any 'poor' person has to go and beg the government to live.
Perfect example of this would be where I live. Developers saw an explosive population boom in our area, and wanted to build a small town with lots of apartments. All the liberals freaked out and forced them to build endless lines of McMansions, and called it the 'rural crescent'. They claimed they were saving the enviorment, which is a huge load of crap. Apartments house people much more efficiently power wise, and make mass transit much easier. It's absolutely impossible to implement mass transit in this 'rural crescent'. The rest of the county has it now, and for over ten years has yet to be financially stable. They''ll probably never bother in this new area, they know it's just not feasible.
And what about the poor (working class) that can't afford a POS $500,000 house? Tough shit. Maybe you can spend all day in line the one day every 4 years the waiting list for government housing(that doesn't exist) is open.
But hey, maybe the poor will save a couple hundred dollars a year in income tax. But in the mean time they can't afford a place to live, gas to get work through the ridiculous traffic(worst in the nation) or anything else that comes with this 'Utopian, environmentally friendly' new community.
---------- Open Source is capitalism applied to IP.
But wait... this RangeCheck code is really critical. Apparently Android does RangeCheck 2600 times on boot. And Windows does it 40 times. So obviously RangeCheck is some sort of OCD that is unnecessary. Also, please buy antivirus because we're not sure how Windows apps get exploited.
Help stamp out iliturcy.