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Oracle will likely win on technical grounds regarding APIs but only because the law is unsuited to software. It's whether a judge should overrule it on principl
by codingmyway 10y ago
Oracle will likely win on technical grounds regarding APIs but only because the law is unsuited to software. It's whether a judge should overrule it on principle of not patent trolling as it's against the public good.
It's the fact they bought Sun with the intention of suing Google in order to profit from Android's success. If it was Sun suing it would different.
After Elon Musk pledged that other car manufacturers could use Tesla's patents is Larry Ellison going to wait until all cars are electric and Tesla is a minor player before buying them out and immediately turning around and suing the entire industry?
- codingmyway 10y agoThe other question is what an Oracle win would do to the Java ecosytem
- maze-le 10y agoThat is a good question. I think short-mid term not much, as a huge amount of infrastructure is dependent on the jmv as a platform, switching to .NET or independent solutions is only a long-term option. I don't know how big a long-term impact will be, but I think it won't be neglible...