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These kinds of things are not settled by arbitrary judges making off the cuff decisions. They are settled by specialist technical judges with advice of dozens
by Guvante 3y ago
These kinds of things are not settled by arbitrary judges making off the cuff decisions.
They are settled by specialist technical judges with advice of dozens of specialists explaining the tech in detail.
Check out Google vs Oracle the lawsuit about whether an API is copyrightable for some examples of how the rulings are very much based on deep understanding.
The only downside is the process is slow and needs both a plaintiff and defendant willing to spend hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to settle the case in court. It also takes many months of time.
- nextaccountic 3y agolast I heard about this ruling was that APIs are copyrightable, which is terrible for open source reimplementations of all stuff
- Guvante 3y agoMore trying to focus on how the ruling wasn't naive as OP implies all rulings are by saying "I wouldn't trust a judge". Alternatively they could mean "judges should stay away from X" but that is nonsensical given the courts being arbitrage...