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Welp, IT industry had a good run. Time to wrap it up and hand it over to a couple of companies to run as a monopoly.
by rodgerd 11y ago
Welp, IT industry had a good run. Time to wrap it up and hand it over to a couple of companies to run as a monopoly.
- coldpie 11y agoYeah, I don't understand why this is a relatively minor story. This should be filling the front page of HN, on par with Jobs's death. If this ruling goes the wrong way, it will end software development as we know it, especially given the ridiculous length of copyright. Any reimplementation of an API? Illegal. IBM compatible PCs? Illegal. Any emulator? Illegal. Binary-compatible reimplementations? Illegal.
- Ygg2 11y agoOn the plus side, being a lawyer will be well paid.