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post #21 of 28
6/1/12 at 7:30pm
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Oh would you look at this, "cut-and-dry" is a synonym of "cut-and-dried". Being wrong is even more annoying than being annoyed by petty idiomatic "errors", but I'm sure you'll realize that when you read this post. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cut-and-dry

Fair point. It's just that given the context, the past tense of the verb is often more the form that fits.
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6/1/12 at 8:15pm
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Agreed.

Seconded. Smart judge, smart decisions.
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6/2/12 at 4:14am
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Love that image. Congrats to Google!

Ditto. ^_^

About time too.
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I respect Judge Alsup... he's a mathematics degree and knows how to program. Plus he ensured that the lay jury were properly instructed and understood the scope, merits, and technical definitions.
We need more judges like him who actually know what they are doing.


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6/2/12 at 7:03am
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I respect Judge Alsup... he's a mathematics degree and knows how to program. Plus he ensured that the lay jury were properly instructed and understood the scope, merits, and technical definitions.
We need more judges like him who actually know what they are doing.

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Agreed, I have a high amount of respect for somebody that learns the intimate details about the case they're presiding over. On top of all the knowledge and experience required to be a judge, he knows how to write code, in multiple languages. That's pretty incredible IMO. The image I have for a large majority of judges is that they're smart, but old and stubborn, and their knowledge is out-of-date. I also agree that we need to get more judges like this, especially in this digital age. Computers aren't going anywhere, and within 20 years I predict that most of your possessions may have some form of CPU running in them, or be connected to other software/hardware somehow. There are going to be plenty of court cases in the future that dispute things like code or APIs, and we need the judges to understand those cases as well as this judge does.

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post #26 of 28
6/2/12 at 7:17am
I would have preferred a broader ruling, declaring all APIs to be exempt from copyright; but even the narrow ruling prevents the computing apocalypse that would have resulted from an upheld copyright claim.
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6/2/12 at 8:28am
We need more Judges like Alsup: fair, unbiased and knowledgeable. He let both sides know that there would be no shenanigans played during the trial. He guided the jury without leading them on and made sure they were able to understand things about coding and programming so they could make an informed verdict. He split the trial up into 3 parts so there wouldn't be information overload. He was even humorous and lightened the mood of the court at times.

<3 you Judge Alsup.
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post #28 of 28
6/2/12 at 9:27am
Great ruling judge.

I thought for sure this would have gone like other cases where the judge is ignorant and make bad ruling.
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