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Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour by curt15 on Thursday May 26, 2016 @05:18PM (#11781716)
>Oracle were never going to get away with that crap argument. To say that had Google copied all the APIs and created a compatible JVM that would have constituted fair use is laughable frankly.

Besides, how is the argument that Google effectively didn't copy enough at all consistent with the fair use factor regarding the amount of expression copied?

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Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour by farcical_tinpot on Thursday May 26, 2016 @05:40PM (#11781890)
It's not, but Oracle had got themselves into a bind over the definition of 'interoperability'. They did indeed argue that Google hadn't copied enough, in so many words.

The trouble is that interoperability takes many forms and can't be shoved into a neat box like that.

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