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Authored by: jezevans on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 04:56 AM EDT |
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Authored by: jezevans on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 04:58 AM EDT |
Please post newspicks here with a link to the story. [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: jezevans on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 04:59 AM EDT |
Please put off topic posts here and, if possible, give some links [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: jezevans on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 05:00 AM EDT |
Put Comes posts here, you wonderful people. [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: lnuss on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 07:54 AM EDT |
"It keeps saying that Java and Android are not fullly compatible."
And there, to me, is another part of the confusion. Without Dalvik in Android
Oracle would have nothing to complain about.
It seems to me that this incompatibility complaint should always mention Dalvik,
rather than Android. But Oracle keeps pushing it this way and everyone else
seems to follow along, mostly.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 08:26 AM EDT |
So google has amicus briefs from leading computing scientists. The whol app
developer association and IP Law professors.
Meanwhile Oracle has amicus briefs from Microsoft and Nokia (Microsoft), I
guess.
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Authored by: BsAtHome on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 08:28 AM EDT |
After looking through both the copyright and patent (troll-)wars playing out,
where parties try to extend their leverage to the max for the sake of killing
competition or outright blackmail, I think there are two possibilities.
One, you can fix the governing laws to make the system sensible again, or two,
you can extend the laws to create a complete system's crash.
The first approach has been very very slow and has not seen any real progress in
addressing the problem for the past 10..15 years. That would suggest that small
adaptive fixes are not working as they should.
The second approach, with help from the courts and lawmakers(/lobbyists), would
create a setting where about anything you do is illegal and a minefield is laid
out across the entire working area. Anybody can "kill" anybody for
about any inferior infraction (just typing the letter 'A' may be enough).
After some thought, I have come to the conclusion that it might be time to let
both the copyright and patent system collapse in a big crash with a huge
mushroom cloud. Let Oracle win this case and nobody, really nobody, can write
one line of code anymore in the US without being killed off for writing it. It
will make the system come to a complete standstill and make the problem truly
visible. The same for the patent system; let everybody patent the wheel and the
+-operator over and over again. Nobody can make anything without being liable. A
complete standstill is the consequence, and again, the problem will be truly
visible.
When _everybody_ becomes an infringer, revolution will result and nobody will
care anymore. If the system is completely unjust, the system will become
obsolete.
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Authored by: ukjaybrat on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 08:36 AM EDT |
With so many people speaking out on Google' behalf and/or
against Oracle, what are the chances this just gets swept
under the rug rather quickly instead of being drawn out over
the rest of the year and wasting time and money better spent
on something else?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 10:36 AM EDT |
Because I know this has been discussed, but it has been a long time, and
I'd really like an update.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 12:40 PM EDT |
Their antics with the Java API, attempting to take what was relatively open and
make it proprietary, is not dissimilar to what it has done with MySQL.
I think it's too bad that MySQL wasn't similarly reverse-engineered by Google so
that it also could be subject of Oracle's lawsuit - it would have given Google
and the world the opportunity to tell Oracle where to stuff it as regards their
heavy-handed redist-support licensing scheme for MySQL, which has driven at
least one company to drop support for MySQL as a DB option for their products -
in favor of, of all things, Microsoft's freebie version of MSSQL.
It's telling when a Microsoft "freebie" has more-favorable
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 12:59 PM EDT |
Should apply to procedures, processes, systems, or methods of operation? Sounds
great to me! But it also means, if this is recognized, that software itself is
not eligible for copyright protection. And as we already agree that it's not
eligible for being patented, then that strips away ALL protection from
software.
This would be a great day indeed. DMCA would not extend to pirated and
hacked/cracked software so long as all "art" has been removed and
replaced with something else and all other brandings removed as well.
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