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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 10:42 AM EDT |
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| Authored by: mcinsand on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 10:50 AM EDT |
Say you write a 500 page novel, copyright it, and there is a sentence something
like:
'The red car was very fast.'
What if someone copied that sentence for a novel? Could you even call it
'infringement' with a straight face? Granted, there is far more creative
content in the above content than there is in rangecheck. Okay, so maybe there
is an equivalent amount of content in the spaces between the words as there is
in rangecheck's blank lines. Otherwise the sentence still has more creativity
in it than rangecheck.
One sentence out of a novel is copied; would you expect an infringement
complaint to have any validity?
The thing is that rangecheck was not driven by creativity but a need to
errorcheck. Furthermore, this isn't the sort of errorchecking that is unique.
Not only that, but the number of software applications that do not have this
sort of test are fractionally infinitesimal. If this was copied, how much time
did it save? A minute? Maybe 2?
I think Oracle should be sanctioned for every minute of litigation beginning the
moment this was found to be the crux of their copyright complaint. Frivolous
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