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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by treis on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @01:32PM (#16690825)
In Sony v. Bleem they used blackbox testing and created their own original code from that. If Google had done the sam they would have been fine.
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by monocasa on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @01:38PM (#16690893)
Because of Java's reflection, a black box approach would have given you the same API names that are being discussed here.
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by hcknwscommenter on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @01:02AM (#16695425)
Not necessarily. You don't have to "look" at the reflection.
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by monocasa on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @11:27AM (#16698412)
You do to be API compliant.
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