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> This is a widespread practice in the software industry. Oracle, for example, re-implemented Amazon's S3 API so that customers who built software for Amazon's
by syspec 6y ago
> This is a widespread practice in the software industry. Oracle, for example, re-implemented Amazon's S3 API so that customers who built software for Amazon's cloud platform could easily switch to Oracle's rival cloud platform.
Oracle themselves are doing it, could someone with a better legal mind explain to me how this doesn't make the case simpler to decide?
Is it that they're saying, it should be illegal but since it is not we are playing the game by the current rules, but we hope to change those rules?
- gojomo 6y agoAs far as I know, Amazon isn't objecting. So, Oracle can say: we're "doing it" with permission.
- zaphar 6y agoIf this case goes the wrong way Oracle may find itself the subject of a lawsuit.
- moonchild 6y agoThey surely know that. Java is a bigger money maker for them than cloud. (Large parts of amazon's cloud are implemented in java.)
- curt15 6y agoIsn't OpenJDK the standard implementation of Java these days? Why would Amazon be using something different?
- CivBase 6y agoThey probably figure they'll make more from this one than they'll lose to Amazon.
- eikenberry 6y agoThey are probably thinking that they could negotiate licenses with the other big companies easier than any startup could, thus locking out a lot of competition.
- cmiles74 6y agoYes, I am sure Amazon will be happy to license their S3 API to help their customers migrate over to Oracle's cloud product. I think not! :-P
- eikenberry 6y agoI'm not saying they are right. But Oracle has a tradition of thinking they are _very_ important and others would be daft not to cater to them.