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Authored by: tiger99 on Saturday, April 28 2012 @ 07:11 AM EDT
This one stood out particularly:
This whole farce is basically an argument for:
- only ever using free software
- designing free software to be as incompatible as possible with commercial products

Since Oracle relies on FS for the entirety of its business (Linux, Apache, the HotSpot VM)... they are sawing off the branch they sit on... well done!

Also, if APIs are copyrightable, they are certainly implicitly part of the copyright on any piece of code that has an API. I wonder how many third party copyrighted APIs Oracle is using without a licence... To start with the GNU libc API...
I see that Oracle,once again, demonstrate that they are the new owners of the SCO Footgun™®! A ruling of the sort they seem to want will indeed foreclose their own use of very many third party APIs. Actually, it is worse than that, it will shut down the entire US software industry, even before patents do.

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  • Apache API? - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 04:32 AM EDT
i think that reads SSO of an API is copyrightable
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 28 2012 @ 08:59 AM EDT
Which is what is in contention

But then, when you are discussing no more than a concept it's easy to confuse
terms.

That's why standards were invented.

If you agree terms, you can come to a mutual understanding of concepts. (like in
mathematics for example ;o)

Concepts of course cannot be copyrighted.

But the question invited is can you copyright an arrangement of concepts?
Or do you just have a bigger concept?

let's see what the jury thinks

I have some confidence that the Judge already knows the answer, but he would
like to see the thoughts of the jury.

If they agree with him, it is so decided.

I imagine it is much harder to overturn a jury than it is a judge.

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