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• I don't think that's true - Authored by: jbb on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 05:50 PM EDT

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1) Winning by the "chess move" is simply winning this portion of the case by a mere technicality. Winning by technicality by judge or jury that actually makes no difference, as its almost inconsequential unless you happen to be Google.

2) Had Google not played the said "chess move", then we would have had a clear decision from the bench on the actual copyrightability of API's in general, which would be of enormous value to the software industry.

Clearly the end effect of the two different ways to win the copyright case are not even comparable. Understandably Google wants to win by any means necessary, but it just would have been nice to have the precedent rather than the technicality. We all know that FM will undoubtedly be twisting this technicality around and spinning into a completely different reality in an Alternate Universe with the media.

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• See my comment above n/t - Authored by: jbb on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 05:52 PM EDT
• the chess move may be both good and bad - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 01:42 AM EDT
  • the chess move may be both good and bad - Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 09:31 AM EDT