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SAS clone maker World Programming wins court case against SAS
4 points by macmac on July 23, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


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[on an assertion by the expert witness of SAS] That evidence was capable of seriously misleading a non-technical judge.

[judge doing fact checking from Wikipedia] In my judgment the SAS Language is a programming language. I am comforted by the fact that this assessment coincides not only with SAS Institute's own assessment in paragraph 6 of its Particulars of Claim and in its literature, but also with that of the anonymous author of the entry for "SAS language" in Wikipedia...


Wow; read a bit of this just to get an idea of how stylistically different in presentation the judgments of US and U.K. courts are.




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