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Whew, Oracle's lawyers and blind greed doesn't get to destroy interoperability for the entire Tech Industry. But the fact that Oracle could get this close and
by mythz 10y ago
Whew, Oracle's lawyers and blind greed doesn't get to destroy interoperability for the entire Tech Industry.
But the fact that Oracle could get this close and spin deceit to a non-technical Jury to decide whether using API declarations from an OSS code-base would in some universe entitle them to a $9B payday, is frightening.
- epalmer 10y ago> But the fact that Oracle could get this close and spin deceit to a non-technical Jury to decide whether using API declarations from an OSS code-base would in some universe entitle them to a $9B payday, is frightening. Yes this was really a close one. I am breathing a sigh of relief now.
- farcical_tinpot 10y agoThey can appeal, but it is going to be very hard for them to get any revenue out of this court action now. That's what this would have been - revenue.