Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by foota on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:47PM
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How do you propose they do this black box testing?
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by treis on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:43PM
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Write code, run it through the compiler and create specifications based on what you observe.
Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by monocasa on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @06:01PM
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And once again, you'd end up in exactly this legal situation since the names are visible via reflection, but somehow aren't functional as viewed by the court.
That's one of the most important issues with this ruling; it effectively bans even black box reimplementations.
Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by hcknwscommenter on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @05:49PM
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It is not copyrights problem that obeying the law might be difficult.