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Who even knows? If APIs are copyrighted and implementing them is a crime, Tim Berners-Lee might end up a billionaire.
by CobrastanJorji 7y ago
Who even knows? If APIs are copyrighted and implementing them is a crime, Tim Berners-Lee might end up a billionaire.
- AdamN 7y ago:-) Actually CERN would get that $$$
- coldpie 7y agoI wonder who "invented" the blink tag? Or the other hundreds of thousands of APIs every web browser implements? And who is responsible for those browser API implementations shipped to millions end users in hundreds of thousands of products? If you thought patent trolling was bad, Oracle just turned that into a molehill.
- kllrnohj 7y agoSee also everyone (including Oracle) that copied Perl 5's regular expression API, and typically even say that straight in their own documentation (again, including Java's).
- onlyrealcuzzo 7y agoHow does Java not copy much of C's API / syntax and type system -- which I'm sure is mostly copied from something else. It's turtles all the way down.