It seems the ideas of interfaces became lost in translation to the judges. The comparison to a football playbook showed that. A playbook would have more in comm

It seems the ideas of interfaces became lost in translation to the judges. The comparison to a football playbook showed that. A playbook would have more in common with a concrete implementation than this idea of standard specifications as "trade secrets". As long as they don't extend the language to break compatibility as Microsoft J++ did, I don't see anything wrong. At the same time there needs to be dissolution within FAANG. Hopefully this loss will help that instead of putting strain on the developer community.