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Thanks for pointing that out. But law does sometimes conflict with how we wish things were or how things should just obviously work, and I don't pretend to kno

by timf 15y ago

Thanks for pointing that out. But law does sometimes conflict with how we wish things were or how things should just obviously work, and I don't pretend to know any better on the specifics (I certainly hope that there is indeed a precedent that protects abstract APIs from being copyrighted). The guy did start the NoSoftwareParents campaign, so I don't know how much of an "Oracle shill" he could really be. Hard to really know, of course. http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/about/manager.html http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/about/manager.html

joe_the_user 15y ago
Mueller is a lobbyist. IE, he has a long history of being to represent various positions not of which are necessarily consistent (he has represented coalitions of closed-source companies for example). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_M%C3%BCller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_M%C3%BCller I'm not sure what is behind his current slant. However, I believe he created nosoftwareparents.com when he was working for MySQL. Oracle's acquisition of MySQL might be an explanation, here.