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You're right; to be clear, I also strongly don't believe that APIs should be copyrightable. But I'm nervous that there are at least a few ways to make the argu
by mik3y 13y ago
You're right; to be clear, I also strongly don't believe that APIs should be copyrightable.
But I'm nervous that there are at least a few ways to make the argument, to a layperson (like a judge or jury), and that Oracle might succeed eventually.
- MichaelGG 13y agoThat's because of the whole "intellectual property" concept. It moves the idea of copyright (and patents) from being an exception to free speech to being some sort of intrinsic fairness. Instead of looking at the tradeoffs with public interest, people start thinking things like "Well he did write it so he should control it. If he had made a chair instead of a poem, we wouldn't just steal the chair from him." In the process, the whole justification for IP is forgotten and we end up in bizarro world.