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Destroying an entire field
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.

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Destroying an entire field
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!).

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Destroying an entire field
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?

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