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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 01:04 PM EDT |
I would suggest it is Oracle that has moved.
Just like SCO did before them.
Google is merely defending itself.
The defence is a function of the attack.
Ask any boxer.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 03:26 PM EDT |
Basically Google has said that Oracle has not shown that
Oracle has copyrights
to each individual API contained in
those 37 'packages'. Google was very nice
in in waiting as I
think Google has been ruffing
. Obvious in
hindsight, but now that it has been played,
Google has been hinting at this for
a long time. Hence, now
we know why Google kept raising the "de minimis"
defense
since it works when you have the complete Java language not
just the
essential subset of APIs.
Now Oracle is in the hard place because it
rested without
proving that they hold the individual API copyrights.
Already
Oracle has had to drop some APIs and perhaps more
are also need to be dropped.
Also, now Google probably does
not have
to question if each individual API can
be copyrighted -
which is good for them.
Now Google can just focus on the
documentation copyright.
That is not easy since a lot is probably computer
generated
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