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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 08:43 PM EDT |
Are you kidding? An appeal is indeed inevitable w/ The Boies
involved. But winning an appeal is a whole different animal.
This Judge did not do what Oracle was really after and that's
to write new law making Java's SSO's copyrightable.
Not API's in general but the Structure Sequence and
Organization of Java's API's. That'd be like saying it'd be ok
for Webster's to Copyright the name "Dictionary" and how one
is put together, with an Index first, just how words are
listed A to Z and with apendages at the back. It seems to me
Dictionaries have to be put together in an interoperable way.
So that that any common users (like developers w/ Java API's)
like you and I can find a word we're looking for w/o learning
a whole new set of 'Dictionary' SSO's for each dictionary we
used.
Instead Judge Alsop has re-enforced existing legal decisions
in order to make this narrow ruling withstand an appeal.
IANAL ...but I've read through this several times and tried to
think of angles Oracle could use as grounds for an appeal and
couldn't. Yet I'm sure The Boies Legal Nazis could dig
something up. But the facts of this case are now set and
Oracle will not be able to add or take away any of that. If an
appeal makes it past it's first go around I'd be surprised and
if it makes it to the Supreme Court, I'll be shocked, but
elated by the prospect this could become cited landmark case
law, like what he used in making this decision! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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