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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 14 2012 @ 03:45 AM EDT |
| The entire US software industry is set back 40 to 50 years, to a
time before common cross-vendor APIs existed.
FTFY - Us Europeans will be just
fine thanks ;) [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 14 2012 @ 10:23 AM EDT |
The entire software industry is set back 40 to
50 years, to a time
before common cross-vendor APIs existed.
Anyone with any basic
knowledge of APIs should know that is
not true! The huge problem with that is
exactly what is can
be copyrighted as all APIs are at least derived from Simula
and usage of software libraries in other languages:Simula
classes could be
included in library files and added at
compile time. Given the state of
copyright laws at the
time (i.e., copyright protection was 'not automatic' as
it
is now), it will be a rather difficult for Oracle or other
companies to
prove API ownership as all APIs are
derivatives of the first API and
actually derivative of the
first function. That makes SSO rather specific and
many of
Java APIs are copies of APIs found in other languages.
Don't forget
that Oracle only registered the copyrights as a
whole, not individual files
(assuming that these are found
valid by the courts). That really limits what
Oracle can do
especially as it never showed proof of exclusive individual
ownership. Also Oracle has not shown that these APIs are the
core of
the collective work - the idea of core goes
against the idea of a computer
language, software libraries
and APIs. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 14 2012 @ 01:42 PM EDT |
Just think of all the billable hours!
As one of Gene Quinn's buddies said "IP generates $40B for the
industry!" This MUST be a good thing, right?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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