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monocasa
on Jan 25, 2019
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Oracle v. Google and the future of software develo...
If it were that cut and dry they'd be able to find the money. At a bare minimum a law firm would pick them up on a contingency.
pjmlp
on Jan 25, 2019
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If Google actually cared about not being sued by Oracle or eventually IBM, they should have bought Sun and do whatever they wanted with Java.
Now they deserve everything they will get out of this.
monocasa
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Or.. you know... there was 40 years of case law that APIs were fair game, and you shouldn't need to buy out a competitor to leverage that.
hyperpallium
on Jan 26, 2019
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Yeah, but the issue there was more moral than legal: fragmentation undermined the java story of
write once, run everywhere
. Key to java's success.
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