This article is trying to make hay out of various tech wars because it makes a nice narrative, but the key here is A copy of Microsoft's legal brief was not im

This article is trying to make hay out of various tech wars because it makes a nice narrative, but the key here is A copy of Microsoft's legal brief was not immediately available on the Federal Circuit's docket. All we know is that they filed a friend of the court brief. Oracle's appeal has a fairly diverse[1] spread of approaches to copyright and APIs in an attempt to make their case. Microsoft's brief could be equally sprawling or limited to a single aspect of Oracle's claims. We won't know until we can actually read it. [1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/on-appeal-oracle-insists-googles-android-copied-key-java-code/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/on-appeal-oracle-...