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Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle’s API copyright case
- danielrpa 6y agoNICE! The trolls finally got burned (after millions in legal costs, though).
- skunkworker 6y agoMore discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26699106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26699106
- rubatuga 6y agoOracle is the worst company in the world
- arbitrage 6y agoAfter the latest RHEL/CentOS debacle, my company is planning on going with Oracle Linux for its new rollouts. It's going to end badly for us. You don't get into bed with Oracle without paying for it one way or another.
- cptskippy 6y agoI mean SAP gives them a pretty good run for their money.
- ncmncm 6y agoOracle is not, to my knowledge, directly responsible for extinction of any species, or for e.g. millions of cancer deaths. Other companies do have that in their history, or are actively engaged in racking up their record. So, however bad Oracle is, there are substantially worse. That does not redeem Oracle in any way.
- arbitrage 6y agoMuch like the SCO UNIX zombie dragging itself out of its grave and harassing the living once more, I suspect this is not the last we've heard of this. Oracle is simply too clever by far to allow a silly impediment like the US Supreme Court to stop it.
- vmception 6y agoThe dissenting opinion is important here and Congress does still need to chime in Its good what the Supreme Court decided We still need a distinction. I think the dissent was a planned instruction by the court, instead of that one judge’s actual sole feelings