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So, now that Oracle has asserted this, are they going to pay IBM for their use of the SQL language?

• SoftwareMaven 15y ago
  If Oracle is arguing it is the API that is copyright able and not the language itself, there may be no issue with SQL. It does add a big question to the C standard library, though. Can AT&T (or whoever owns the remnants of Bell Labs) start in on everybody?
  • angersock 15y ago
    Oh that would be glorious. I'd pay good money to see that hammer fall.
  • eli_gottlieb 15y ago
    They already tried that against BSD back in the '90s.
  • luriel 15y ago
    Isn't that basically what SCO tried not long ago?
    • rst 15y ago
      Same law firm too, at least in part --- Boies, Schiller & Flexner represented the plaintiffs in both lawsuits.