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Re:Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility by zbentley on Thursday January 10, 2019 @05:55AM (#18872944)
> The Java ecosystem has been irreparably harmed by Dalvik and its lack of support for more modern versions of Java.

So if ReactOS gets popular but doesn't support Windows 10 APIs, will it be harming the windows ecosystem? If popular implementations of a tool exist that don't chase other (official or not) implementations' features but still get lots of users, that probably means that the popular implementations provide other benefits.

> API design is a creative endeavor

I agree with that.

> and worthy of [legal] protection

But not that.

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Re:Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility by spullara on Friday January 11, 2019 @02:06AM (#18881563)
With current copyright law you basically can't agree with both of those statements as they are mutually exclusive.
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