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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by michaelmrose on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:14PM (#16692304)
They copied literally a handful of lines of code that an intern could have written in a few hours.
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by hcknwscommenter on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @06:02PM (#16693166)
But they didn't just write their own APIs. They copied them. Thousands of them.
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by cromwellian on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @09:40PM (#16694473)
Copying an API is what software developers call "implementing an API"

When you create your own USB cable, or electric plug, you aren't copying the API specs, you're implementing them.

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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by ben509 on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @06:02PM (#16693165)
Once they admit to copying some of it, it throws the whole clean room process into doubt. I think the courts are working on the "where there's smoke there's fire" principle.
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