Finally scrappy guileless startup Google can stick it to the bloated megacorp Uber /s
I think you got the roles mixed up... Google is the megacorp in this and Uber is scrappy startup.
Uber must turn over information about its acquisition of Otto to Waymo
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Re: Uber must turn over information about its acquisition of Otto to Waymo
#22Where's the district attorney? If someone is claiming the 5th because he might be incriminated that seems like pretty strong probable cause for a criminal investigation.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Were you on Slashdot when SCO was ongoing? If not, this is what a corporate titan proxy war looks like in the news cycle. And it's objectively defensible. The outcome of this lawsuit will shape what an incredibly important future technology looks like and who controls it.
SCO?
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#24Re: Uber must turn over information about its acquisition of Otto to Waymo
#25Where's the district attorney? If someone is claiming the 5th because he might be incriminated that seems like pretty strong probable cause for a criminal investigation.
There's nothing wrong or shady about claiming the 5th. It's an important legal protection. Why would you seek to diminish or undermine something that might one day protect you?
Re: Uber must turn over information about its acquisition of Otto to Waymo
#26It's high time for mods to launch ubernews, they are in the spotlight every single day. 71 submissions last week [0]. 0: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=uber&sort=byDate&dateRange=pas...
Were you on Slashdot when SCO was ongoing? If not, this is what a corporate titan proxy war looks like in the news cycle. And it's objectively defensible. The outcome of this lawsuit will shape what an incredibly important future technology looks like and who controls it.
Man, I miss Groklaw. I would love to have a Groklaw-equivalent following this trial. I wonder if folks could, like, crowdsource a salary for PJ to cover a new trial?
Re: Uber must turn over information about its acquisition of Otto to Waymo
#27Finally scrappy guileless startup Google can stick it to the bloated megacorp Uber /s
Uber is worth 60 billion dollars.
It is 2megacorps fighting each other.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Were you on Slashdot when SCO was ongoing? If not, this is what a corporate titan proxy war looks like in the news cycle. And it's objectively defensible. The outcome of this lawsuit will shape what an incredibly important future technology looks like and who controls it.
SCO?
v IBM. Aka, the case through which pj taught most of the tech community about law.
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2003101616...
Re: Uber must turn over information about its acquisition of Otto to Waymo
#29For all the relative good that Facebook and Google have done for the image of how contemporary business gets done in Silicon Valley, Uber is doing its best to make sure we realize that y'all are just as big a shitheads as the rest of corporate America.
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#30I'm really curious how Alphabet even suspects that Levandowski signed this doc days after he quit. Anonymous/confidential tip?
They didn't know. Levandowski's lawyer outed its existence in a hearing, trying to use it as some basis for redacting or witholding other documents.
"Ramsey pointed to a joint defense agreement between Levandowski and various law firms that meant that nothing should be revealed."
I assume it was dated.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/judge-accuses-ub...
Perhaps a move he regrets?
Edit: That arstechnica article has much more info on how this played out than the main linked article for this thread.