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RedHat urges US Supreme Court to support unrestricted use of software interfaces
- godzillabrennus 7y agoMicrosoft backing this same stance plus Google is likely to tip the scale. Good to see redhat/IBM trying to do their part, If they lose the world loses.
- webboynews 7y agoOh my god. Only my stance is current otherwise it's instant doomsday
- anoncake 7y agoIs this really how courts work in the US? Does the Supreme Court effectively rule based on companies voting rather than the law as it is?
- CivBase 7y agoDefinitely not. Companies may lobby or argue on their behalf, but the Supreme Court justices are solely responsible for interpreting the law and ruling on the case.
- graphicsRat 7y agoI hope IBM is considering a similar suit against Oracle for their implementation of SQL.
- teruakohatu 7y agoWhen is the Court likely to issue a ruling?
- jka 7y agoI'm not super familiar with US court proceedings, but from the docket[0] for the case, it looks like the court is accepting briefs (like this one by RedHat) until Feb 12th -- so I'd imagine the earliest next steps would be after that. The docket also links to the full supporting argument provided by RedHat (and others). [0] - https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/18-956.html https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/...
- PhantomGremlin 7y agoIt would be very unusual if the court didn't issue a ruling before the end of the current term. So by about late June. https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/procedures.aspx https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/procedures.aspx
- nailer 7y agoRed Hat was a great corporate citizen before Google adopted "don't be evil" officially and remains a good corporate citizen after Google abandoned it.
- justinclift 7y agoAs a nit picking data point, "RedHat" in the title should be "Red Hat". ;)
- theandrewbailey 7y agoThe title is already 80 characters long as it is. Any longer and HN wouldn't accept it.
- theshadowknows 7y agoI have a fairly limited understanding of copyright laws but if this stands won’t it open the courts up to even more frivolous copyright trolls?
- colejohnson66 7y agoHeck, Amazon could sue Oracle for them copying AWS’ interfaces. And IBM could sue Oracle for their use of SQL. That’d be some schadenfreude.
- jwildeboer 7y agoDear mods, we are called Red Hat. Two words. Not Redhat or RedHat or redhat. Thx. A Red Hatter.
- theandrewbailey 7y ago"Red Hat urges US Supreme Court to support unrestricted use of software interfaces" is 81 characters long, so it won't be accepted as an HN title.
- boublepop 7y agoGood point, so it makes perfect sense to shorten it to “Red Hat urges US SupremeCourt to support unrestricted use of software interfaces” to stay inside 80 characters.
- CameronNemo 7y agoSCOTUS would make more sense. u2691.
- CameronNemo 7y agoThis comes across as pedantry, similar in vein to the whole SyStEmD shtick, and it distracts from the content. Red Hat is just a brand asset of IBM, and getting lectured by the volunteer marketing department is not why I come to HN.
- illys 7y agoThe referred law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/102 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/102 Software interfaces look to me like a "method of operation", only the implementation (the lines of code to run the interface) is subject to copyright.