Lawyer, accountant and retired chief financial officer are among the eight women and two men, who were selected on Monday to resolve a huge case of copyright infringement of Oracle against Google.
10 jurors jury, lawyers on both sides will make their opening statements on Tuesday morning, starting a high-profile trial, which is expected to last four weeks.
This is a technical event, and at least one member of the jury, it seems likely to have trouble keeping up. She retired from Berkeley woman, who said she struggles with the technology and thought it would not be good for her to hear.
"I have no problem with English, but in my limited experience of working with computers, I believe, English is used strange and unnatural," she said, laughing a friendly court.
During the break, when the jury was not there, even Judge William Alsup suggested it might be a good idea to reject it. But neither side did.
When the pool of potential jurors were denied for up to 16 years, each party had the opportunity to justify the three of them. But a retired woman was not one of those who were released.
Instead, Oracle was the first choice to dismiss a person with a science degree computer, working at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said that advocacy group that supports Google, in this case, it is no surprise that Oracle wanted.
Meanwhile, Google rejected the man who said he admired Larry Ellison, chairman of Oracle to buy Hawaiian island of Lanai. The man said he played golf there twice, and hope Allison will make the course a little better.
Google also rejected a man who said he does not believe in the idea of "free software." Google thing rests in part on how to convince the jury that he should not have to pay to use Oracle's Java programming interfaces.
The selection process takes about five hours in the room of Judge William Alsup court on the 19th floor of the Federal District Court in San Francisco. It's been a long morning, we parted a few moments of humor.
Alsup rejected a prospective juror after he was caught handing out religious tracts of the other jurors.
"You can not be proselytizing their religion among the jury," Alsup said.
"The server that a higher authority than you, sir," the man replied.
"So far, he has not told me," Alsup said, and asked him politely to leave. The man offered him a brochure on the output.
Alsup warned the jury that they were prevented from discussing the case with anyone, not even with their spouses, so as not to tarnish your opinion, and they should not leave for the event on Twitter or Facebook. If they do, Alsup said that they can be held in contempt of court and assigned to community service.
He also told them that they can not "Google" as to learn more about him, before admitting it was a bad choice of words under the circumstances.
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