> have, in fact, been able to come up with phones that work just fine without engaging in this kind of copying? Which, of course, is completely false. All of t

> have, in fact, been able to come up with phones that work just fine without engaging in this kind of copying? Which, of course, is completely false. All of them have many, many reimplementations of open APIs in their many layers of software. It's just that no one was stupid enough to copyright those APIs and try to sue someone else for implementing an API before. Oracle's actions threaten to upend the common understanding of software ecosystems and throw everything into disarray.