rust and cargo are a command line interface. That is, a terminal api that will be used in countless scripts. Google vs Oracle [0] was a fight over whether an ap

rust and cargo are a command line interface. That is, a terminal api that will be used in countless scripts. Google vs Oracle [0] was a fight over whether an api could be copyrighted. Maybe, maybe not, but re-implementing it could be considered fair use according to the supreme court. Now, apparently some want to test whether it can instead be trademarked. I think that's very unfortunate. The freedom to make drop-in-replacements is worth defending. This goes way beyond the Iceweasel situation. [0] https://bit.ly/3RH3zdn https://bit.ly/3RH3zdn (Link goes to, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_.... but HN strips the trailing dot).