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by liara_k 7y ago
Ah, THAT makes sense. Not having their own system licensed under the GPL would explain why licensing of OpenJDK doesn't make the question irrelevant, and the timeline explains why they didn't just use OpenJDK directly. Thanks! A
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by liara_k 7y ago
The aspect of this case that I don't understand is why, even if APIs are copyrightable, why Google would need a special license for the Android. If Java is available under the GPL, and Android is a derivative work but is also licensed
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by liara_k 7y ago
My experience in law school was that, while this sort of destructive behavior thing did occasionally happen, it's way overblown. In all the courses I took, the missing book thing (1) happened _once_, during the first year, (2) was cor
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by liara_k 7y ago
This is the pro/con of making systems programming more accessible. You're getting a lot of new developers without a lot of experience wanting to start learning a powerful new system. This often means making something semi-useful
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by liara_k 7y ago
The difficulty with combating grade inflation is that no one school can do it alone. One school doing it just disadvantages their students when these grades are compared. A much more accurate system, IMHO, would be to switch over to a rank
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by liara_k 7y ago
> Google is not liable for anything they publish/display, but still have the power to choose what they publish/display. Choosing how to respond to a query string is the very nature of what a search engine does. It's utter