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How is this different to Google copying Oracle's Java API? Is it because it's hardware?
by r9295 3y ago
How is this different to Google copying Oracle's Java API? Is it because it's hardware?
- mook 3y agoThe devices talk to Haier's servers, which Home Assistant (or rather a third-party integration) then talks to. It's dumb that it's required, but at least Haier's servers are involved.
- mindslight 3y agoOracle vs Google is a fully resolved case that cost those companies millions of dollars to litigate. This is a shakedown letter which uses those kinds of large legal damages as a threat to force a developer to stop doing something that a company does not like.
- r9295 3y agoI was wondering if the precedent set by the Oracle vs Google case applied here as the user is re-implementing an API, but considering the fact that the user still has to go talk to Haeir servers, it's a different story.