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Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour by jra_samba on Thursday May 26, 2016 @09:52PM (#11783349)
A linearized network protocol is not an API. That distinction is very clear. Read the Microsoft protocol specs. They say nothing about API's used to send/receive the protocol - only how the protocol elements are encoded on the wire.

The API's that Samba uses to access that protocol are nothing like the Windows API calls (and are a completely independent implementation).

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Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour by nl on Thursday May 26, 2016 @10:01PM (#11783380)
I don't disagree at all!

I'm just pointing out that it isn't at all clear to me that the strong distinction that software people see between APIs and protocols is as clear under law.

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