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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 22 2012 @ 08:09 AM EDT |
I could see a languages APIs or includes being copyrighted. It would
never become popular, though because developers would avoid it like
the plague.
Even if Sun's APIs are found to be copyrighted, what difference does it
make? If Java is free for anyone to use (which is a main reason it
became popular), and Sun didn't say anything to the effect of "these
specific APIs cannot be used without a license," its only common sense
to view the APIs as free to use (else, again, developers would have
avoided it like the plague).
Sun never took that position, so what gives Oracle the right to do it now
that so many developers depend on the APIs (which are the definitions
of the language that is free to use) being free to use.
That would be like FreeBSD trying to go proprietary and claw all their
code back from Apple, MS, UNIX, etc. using their copyrights to the code
as their authority to do so. That's inconsolable both legally and ethically.
When you give someone the rights to something ("Java is free for anyone
to use"), and people and whole industries become dependant on that
freedom ("Java is free for anyone to use"), you can't claw it back and
demand license fees. Oracle is corrupted in the head for even trying to
do this. The most that they could do is change their license going
forward, but doing that would only fork Java (they tried it with open
office, and look what happened). Oracles Java would cease to exist if it
forks because nobody would touch it with a 10ft pole, and they know it.
THAT'S why Oracle is so desperate to claw everything back.
If they actually pull this off, people will buy licenses for a quick fix, but
Java will die because people will abandon it for another free alternative
they know they can count on (or people will abandon it out of spite).
Oracle is so wrong about this on so many levels, it shows just how sick
these people are.
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- another note... - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 22 2012 @ 08:23 AM EDT
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