[mav3r1ck]

You don’t see why forcing the open sourcing of the entire Google codebase would be a problem? That’s essentially what GPL does, if you use even a tiny portion of it for your code and they prove it, you have to GPL ALL the source code from the same for base.

[infinity0]

Nobody is going to seriously argue that google3/ is a single piece of software.

[UncleMeat]

When it is worth billions of dollars and judges often barely understand tech somebody will.

[amdavidson]

Despite it being legal nonsense, it's all about finding the right Judge.

Perhaps there is more bandwidth in Marshall, TX now that they don't have all those pesky patent cases.