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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 07:11 PM EDT |
bjd, I'm not sure I've explained what I meant well enough in original comment
that started this topic.
But imo it doesn't help the overall discussion with non-technical people or
programmers by getting caught up in the specifics of whether methods/classes are
qualified by “.” or “/”, or if they reference inside a jar filesystem overlay
(by using stream objects) or directly to files in folders on the drive, it all
still comes back to the same simple mechanism.
The references through the API SSO are still perceived by a virtual machine as
just folders, subs folders, filenames and methods, all of which are mundanely
functional; irrespective of time spent arranging them, and certainly not worthy
of creative copyright protection as Oracle hopes from buying Sun's copy of C++,
smalltalk(which copied aspects of other language's SSOs). Copyright protection
of such trivial things would come at a huge expense of diminishing the finite
filesystem “key-space” for everyone else who uses a computer to develop
software.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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