Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 07 2012 @ 03:20 PM EDT |
I don't think it is safe to assume there would be no action. Remember we have
trolls.
Tufty
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Authored by: jjs on Monday, May 07 2012 @ 10:13 PM EDT |
As I pointed out elsewhere on this fine site - Novell contributed the APIs to
Unix to The Open Group (who also got the trademarks). The USG and IEEE
developed POSIX as a portable version of the Unix APIs. Now they are together
as an Open Group/IEEE specification.
Note that Novell kept the source code, though (as TSG found out). API = source
code.
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(Note IANAL, I don't play one on TV, etc, consult a practicing attorney, etc,
etc)
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 07 2012 @ 10:23 PM EDT |
The threat from an Oracle win is multiple claimants demanding their pound
of flesh.
You literally could not write any software without infringing upon somebody
else's API copyright. That you don't call the API in question is irrelevant.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 04:56 AM EDT |
Even MSWindows claims to have a POSIX implementation. (Or it did at one point,
anyway.)
So whoever owns the POSIX standard could go after *everyone*.
My bet would be that they start with "Oracle 'Unbreakable' Linux"
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 11:50 AM EDT |
The politicos etc. may have already inflicted serious possibly fatal damage via
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