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If Oracle wins, next time you re-implement an existing API someone can sue you.
by khc 7y ago
If Oracle wins, next time you re-implement an existing API someone can sue you.
- JudgeWapner 7y agoI shriek at the idea of 9 SCOTUS justices trying to understand how API's work and making that decision for all of us. I'm sure those men and women are highly intelligent, in their field of law, but I just don't have much faith in them understanding the difference between printf(...) and libc.a
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 7y agoprintf and libc are not much of an issue as the c standard library and the posix specification were explicitly created to allow for multiple implementations of the API.
- monocasa 7y agoI mean, that didn't stop SCO from suing everyone under the sun the first go around.
- rchaud 7y agoYou don't have to be a doctor to rule on an abortion case. Same principle applies here, as it should.
- jandrese 7y agoThat may not be the best example...
- rhino369 7y agoIf google’s lawyers cannot explain the issues on a way that high intelligent lay people under stand it, then they aren’t doing their job. Most issue at the Supreme Court are highly detailed in some other area of expertise: medicine, economics, foreign policy, agriculture, the environment. And the court with the most experience in tech, the Fed. Cir. decided in a way that most here don’t like.