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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 03 2012 @ 08:13 PM EDT |
"if a programmer automates the task of updating the robots by writing a
translation program, he has also violated the old API" In the US only.
All that has to be done now with the EU ruling is locate the translator and the
complete computer industry in EU which is rather good for the EU with their high
unemployment rate.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 03 2012 @ 09:02 PM EDT |
Heck, I'd even be seriously interested in arguments that Oracle's
protection of the APIs didn't mean they couldn't go after any application
programmer who ever wrote anything in Java and didn't give them
money.
This is the issue! The API, as written, provides all the
information that one needs to write programs using it, but, to one skilled in
the art, it also provides enough information to implement the same
functionality. If the verdict goes in Oracle's favor in prosecuting the folks
who used the API to produce a new implementation, what is to keep them from
going after the folks who write programs that call Oracle's implementation (but
who did not spring for a license)? The whole point of publishing an API is so
that it will be used.
In any case, Oracle has already squandered the good
will that Sun had spent years cultivating. Java is not free and will never be
free if Oracle prevails, and not only Java ... there will be lots of trolls who
have published interfaces who will take the cue and follow suit (pun intended!). [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 04:45 AM EDT |
"if a programmer automates the task of updating the robots by writing a
translation program, he has also violated the old API"
Isn't that exactly what Google's Java->Dalvik compiler does?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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