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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by phkahler on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @09:22PM (#16694380)
>> I didn't choose to mingle those things. That's just plain what the facts are. I get that you don't like them, but that's tough beans.

There are two things in play here and they are NOT the same. The one the whole world cares about is weather APIs are copyrightable. Weather Google is guilty of copying part of Oracles implementation of the code behind the API is not relevant to API copyrightability. If you can't see the distinction you don't understand software or the real core of the case and should stop trolling. If you do see the distinction, why do you keep insisting on conflating the two?

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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by ABCLAW on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:13PM (#16694952)
You've been pointed towards resources that answer all of the issues you've raised, but you haven't read them. Suffice it to say, the decisions do not agree that Google's behavior here is not relevant in determining how to deal with the copyright issue.

Whether or not the supreme court agrees with the IPRs affirmed in this series of cases is another question entirely, but until that comes down, nothing has really changed.

Happy reading.

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