Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour
by Natanael_L on Friday May 27, 2016 @04:02AM
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What's the argument based on? Compared to for example software projects under permissive licenses, Creative Commons, etc, can you show that copyright does more than to simply help somebody popularize (through marketing) things that likely already would have existed?
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Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour
by Silhouette on Friday May 27, 2016 @09:14AM
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How many AAA games have been created with permissive licences?
What permissively licensed software is available to design ships or office buildings or integrated circuits?
When Adobe created a gap in the market by making Creative Cloud subscription-only, it took just a few years for several quite slick and professionally well-regarded alternative products to appear, with feature sets catering to former users of Creative Suite products in specific areas. Those new products are all commercial and funded by copyright-protected sales. How long have FOSS products like the GIMP or Inkscape been trying to do the same thing, without ever succeeding?
Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour
by Natanael_L on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @09:31AM
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What kernels can compete with Linux in servers and embedded? How many how many network protocols are entirely proprietary? And what about Android, Blender?