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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 10:31 AM EDT |
Also, Sony did not make any claims that the BIOS API functionality or its SSO
was protected, and so no ruling was made on that, so I don't think that it
creates any precedent one way or the other for Oracle's claims of the SSO being
protected by copyright.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 10:35 AM EDT |
Connectix definitely had to copy the Sony firmware API and ABI for
compatibility, how else would the commercial games that expect those syscalls to
work run? Google only had to copy the API, Dalvik has a different ABI.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: mcinsand on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 12:22 PM EDT |
So, Google stayed to an SSO that was allowed to roam freely in the wild through
Harmony and encouraged by Sun's CEO for compatibility. Oracle has been crying
of fragmentation risks, but Google stressed comptability. I have a feeling
that, had Google gone it alone for a new SSO, this suit would be about them
actually having fragmented the market with calls to have them stick with Sun's
blessed and publicly-available SSO.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 03:11 PM EDT |
The nice thing is that if by some miraculous chance, Oracle wins this lawsuit,
then Oracle just sealed it's own fate, as it's core product, the Oracle Database
was initially a clone (100% code copied) from IBMs database product at the
time.
Plus, they'll seal their fate with regards to a new cloud api they are trying to
get others to use.
Kind of stupid on Oracle's part... okay - REALLY stupid on Oracle's part.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 24 2012 @ 07:07 AM EDT |
Before this SSO of API thing becomes set in stone in legal precedent, perhaps
the law should take note of the fact that programmers really haven't a clue what
the lawyers are talking about when they use this term. It would be nice if the
law tried to stay approximately related to reality. It is hard enough to
understand the law when it talks about real things.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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