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Who knows. Does Amazon implement any of Oracle's APIs? This ruling is about to make the software patent mess look like a walk in the park.

buttersbrian 6y ago
I would wholly expect Amazon to sue over S3 implementations by Oracle, IBM for SQL, etc. I would want the whole industry to target Oracle. Get their pound of flesh.
- coldpie 6y ago
  And then Oracle sues Amazon and IBM back for implementing some API or other that they own through one of their billion acquisitions...
- buttersbrian 6y ago
  Mutually Assured Destruction from the fallout of a terrible decision that forces the SC to re-evaluate (through another case etc) is better than letting something like this settle.
- tmccrary55 6y ago
  Same but I think the problem is tech people don't buy Oracle products on purpose, suits do that.
  - buttersbrian 6y ago
    That's probably true. Honestly, companies shouldn't be worried about the FANG's, because they will create alliances and largely refrain from suing one another. It's the never-ending, death-by-a-thousand-cuts onslaught from trolls that will murder small/medium outfits. The east texas troll court is going to have a boom like it was 1840s California just to support all the litigation in our near future -- if this passes.
    - dodobirdlord 6y ago
      The East Texas troll court is focused on patent cases, and presumably won’t be the venue of choice for copyright law trolling. I’m sure that venue already exists.
dragonwriter 6y ago
> Does Amazon implement any of Oracle's APIs? They reimplement MySQL for Aurora Serverless, but losing Aurora Serverless MySQL probably hurts Amazon less than losing their S3 clone hurts Oracle, and in any case MySQL is GPL and Amazon doesn't redistribute their implementation, so they are probably within the license anyway.
josefx 6y ago
If it is anything like the CPU patent mess then they might join forces and just sue anyone else out of existence Intel/AMD OTP.

buttersbrian 6y ago

I would wholly expect Amazon to sue over S3 implementations by Oracle, IBM for SQL, etc. I would want the whole industry to target Oracle. Get their pound of flesh.

coldpie 6y ago
And then Oracle sues Amazon and IBM back for implementing some API or other that they own through one of their billion acquisitions...
buttersbrian 6y ago
Mutually Assured Destruction from the fallout of a terrible decision that forces the SC to re-evaluate (through another case etc) is better than letting something like this settle.
tmccrary55 6y ago
Same but I think the problem is tech people don't buy Oracle products on purpose, suits do that.
- buttersbrian 6y ago
  That's probably true. Honestly, companies shouldn't be worried about the FANG's, because they will create alliances and largely refrain from suing one another. It's the never-ending, death-by-a-thousand-cuts onslaught from trolls that will murder small/medium outfits. The east texas troll court is going to have a boom like it was 1840s California just to support all the litigation in our near future -- if this passes.
  - dodobirdlord 6y ago
    The East Texas troll court is focused on patent cases, and presumably won’t be the venue of choice for copyright law trolling. I’m sure that venue already exists.

dragonwriter 6y ago

> Does Amazon implement any of Oracle's APIs? They reimplement MySQL for Aurora Serverless, but losing Aurora Serverless MySQL probably hurts Amazon less than losing their S3 clone hurts Oracle, and in any case MySQL is GPL and Amazon doesn't redistribute their implementation, so they are probably within the license anyway.

josefx 6y ago

If it is anything like the CPU patent mess then they might join forces and just sue anyone else out of existence Intel/AMD OTP.