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The district judge overseeing Waymo's trade-secret legal battle with Uber has denied a request by Waymo to get all of Uber's self-driving car source code. Calling the Waymo demand "profoundly overboard", Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley flatly snubbed the Google spinoff on Monday during a hearing in San Francisco, California. " …

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  1. Will Godfrey Silver badge
    Meh

    Guess I picked the wrong month...

    ... to give up popcorn.

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    1. Captain Scarlet
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      Re: Guess I picked the wrong month...

      Someone at Waymo picked the wrong month to give up smoking

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  2. fobobob

    Why can they not provide a single qualified individual (or small team) access for on-site review of the code? Should be easy enough to identify large blocks of poorly obfuscated copy-pasta. (if that has even been done, and provided things are even as Waymo suggests)

    Seems like a corporate case on which one can pull out the 'nothing to hide, nothing to fear' rhetoric... and I do believe that corporations are entitled to something resembling privacy.

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    1. druck Silver badge
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      Or why not get an independent 3rd party to analyse both sets of source code? There are plenty of tools to automate the process these days.

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  3. Jim in Hayward

    24 hrs?

    How do you get access to source code for only 24hrs? Does the data 'self-destruct'? Sure seems to me like they want to get some fresh ideas by looking at how others do it.

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