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by bismuthsalt 6y ago
ARM has built a business around selling licenses for an instruction set, with multiple third parties implementing said instruction set in silicon.
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by bismuthsalt 6y ago
That's a stretch. Oracle is claiming copyright on a specific API with a specific name, specific organization and specific individual components / attributes. It is not claiming copyright on all standard lib APIs. In fact, there is
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by bismuthsalt 6y ago
Can you copyright Harry Potter the character? Or can anyone use recognizable Harry Potter reproductions in commercial context, be it alternative books, movies or merchandise?
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by bismuthsalt 6y ago
The unimpeachable approach for the software industry is to setup consortiums to define open standards for APIs, file formats and wire protocols, instead of relying on replicating the most popular proprietary ones. In fact there already exis
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by bismuthsalt 6y ago
Less than you'd think. Circa 2020, some mainstream positions in a west coast city that is politically 85% leftwing: * Cannabis already legalized. Driving kids to school past huge "Amazing Cannabis" posters all over the city.
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by bismuthsalt 6y ago
To note, in 2001 Portugal has decriminalized possession of small quantities of drugs, for first time offenders. Drug trafficking is still just as illegal as ever. There are no cannabis shops or pervasive cannabis advertisement, as opposed t
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by bismuthsalt 6y ago
First, this is not a 99% blatant copy. I see things on the java side that are not in the libm side, like addExact, IEEEremainder or nextDown. I see things on the libm side that are not in the java package, like fpclassify, gamma or jN. I se
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by bismuthsalt 6y ago
Perhaps the Sun engineer did indeed copy from UNIX to some mild degree The line between "inspired from" and "copied from" is a fine line indeed. When does a term stop being proprietary and enter the vernacular of a speci
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by bismuthsalt 6y ago
Designing an API is a creative act. An API is source code. Witness thousands of languages, all with recognizably different standard libraries, including languages like Go or Dart created by Google themselves. The problem is less with indivi