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UPDATE: The jury verdict is in. They found no infringement of the patents!

"Robert Smith meets Ducky from Pretty in Pink"

"If Ellison gets his way, then the suite will get re-written in JavaFX. That will not only hurt development but set back a suite that's been slow to close the gap on Microsoft's Office. Such a move will also be seen by open-source supporters as early proof that Oracle is putting its own corporate goals ahead of the community's when it comes to running Sun's open-source projects. That'll further spook people alredy concerned about the future of MySQL."

"Muller spent his days at Sun focused on GUIs, leading all of the company's client Java work." ...which were a success, how?

"Lively will seem vaguely familiar to you if you've ever run Smalltalk."

"the new and interesting work will not be done in Java, nor will it be done on the JVM."