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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 17 2012 @ 11:47 AM EDT |
<i>Does that give me first dibs on line noise :-)</i>
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Isn't that APL?
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Kidding aside, an Oracle win would be a big short term setback for FOSS, but
could be a long term win. It would fragment software into proprietary land
where you have to pay royalties to umpteen different organizations for
everything you do. And free land where everything is GPLed or something
similar.
I get giddy thinking of how much Microsoft would owe to the owners of the
copyright on the C library (AT&T? Novel?) for copyright infringement all
these years. I bet Oracle owes even more. I suspect this judge is way too smart
to rule in Oracles favor, but if he were and the ruling were to survive the
inevitable appeals to the Supreme Court, all the big evil software companies
would be toast. Their patents would be nothing compared to the copyright
violations from implementing and using the C library alone.
Of course as this was all going on, anyone with a fraction of a brain would run
offshore and the US would become a tech wasteland.
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