|
|
|
| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 04:19 AM EDT |
The scenario you scetch goes for proprietary software. There would be more
issues of license conflict in free software, but I would expect those to be
resolved by the authors.
It may need new versions of FOSS licenses, in order to adapt to changing case
law.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
| |
| Authored by: JamesK on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 08:20 AM EDT |
If Oracle wins, I can see the software industry going back to the early days
when you wrote for the hardware, without an operating system in between. Change
a video card? Change the applications to match. It wasn't that long ago we had
to worry about printer drivers in word processors or apps writing direct to the
serial port, because of the limitations in DOS. One of the major reasons
operating systems is to provide standard interfaces for applications. But if
developers can't use them because they've been copyrighted... Imagine a world
where Ford couldn't use the same screw threads as GM, because GM had a copyright
on them.
---
The following program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
| |
| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 09:47 AM EDT |
Not just external APIs, but internal APIs would be affected as well. Take a
simple example:
SELECT emp_name, emp_salary, emp_position
FROM
employee
WHERE emp_manager = 'ras'
Select, from and where (the
all caps items) are APIs into the particular programming language. Of course,
when based on a standard - SQL in this case - it is also an API defined by the
standard.
Using the above in PostgreSQL, I wouldn't be
concerned.
But given Oracle's arguments in the case, I wouldn't want to
use that on any database Oracle touched for fear that Oracle would lay claim to
my work. So MySQL and MariaDB would both be negatively impacted as
well.
They wouldn't be impacted in any sane world - but Oracle's
arguments don't exist in the sane world.
Without APIs - a programming
language simply can't be used for programming.
RAS[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
|
|
|
|
