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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 20 2012 @ 04:03 PM EDT |
> So you have no problem with Oracle owning (literally) all
of
your programs you write in Java - since you CANNOT program
in java without using the API?
I'm sorry, but I'm afraid you didn't understand Oracle's
claim. They don't claim copyright infringement when USING
the API (this would be like claiming copyright infringement
for READING a book), only for implementing them. And, no, I
don't intend to ever re-implement the JDK APIs. We already
have a perfectly fine open-source implementation by Oracle
called OpenJDK. Occasionally it might be necessary to re-
implement a couple of classes here and there, but it's
mostly for internal use, and in any case it's bound to fall
under fair-use no matter what the ruling is (not that Oracle
would want to go after people using their APIs or even re-
implementing small pieces for internal use - it's in their
best interest that they do). And if worse comes to worst and
Oracle is taken over by some truly insane leader (more than
Mr Ellison :)) and for some reason decides to charge
royalties for using Java (even though they can't because
it's open-source, but assume they do), then that day Java
will be doomed, and everyone will simply use competing
products. That's how the market works. As much as I dislike
capitalism, sometimes it really is beautiful.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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