San Francisco voters have a long and interesting voting history.
The City is required to separate authorization from funding for most civic projects that are put on the ballot for citizens to vote on.
With an unbreakable tradition, San Francisco voters nearly always vote for civic project authorization, to make city officials happy, and vote strongly against funding.
That is exactly what happened in Judge William Asup's Federal District Court for Northern California located in San Francisco. The jury voted that the Java patents that Oracle gained by buying Sun Microsystems definitely applied to the software that Google used in building its Android mobile phone system.
But they also voted that the parts of Java that Google software engineers used were small samples of universal applicability that fall under the patent concept of 'fair use'. That means that Google doesn't have to pay for using that patented materials.
The jurors did to the court what San Franciscans usually do to ballot initiatives. 'Yes we agree with you, no you don't get the money'.
More trial to come if the belligerents don't wise-up and settle the case.