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>Oracle were never going to get away with that crap argument. To say that had Google copied all the APIs and created a compatible JVM that would have constitute
by curt15 10y ago
>Oracle were never going to get away with that crap argument. To say that had Google copied all the APIs and created a compatible JVM that would have constituted fair use is laughable frankly.
Besides, how is the argument that Google effectively didn't copy enough at all consistent with the fair use factor regarding the amount of expression copied?
- farcical_tinpot 10y agoIt's not, but Oracle had got themselves into a bind over the definition of 'interoperability'. They did indeed argue that Google hadn't copied enough, in so many words. The trouble is that interoperability takes many forms and can't be shoved into a neat box like that.