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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by wyldfire on Friday November 15, 2019 @10:14PM (#21550753)
For anyone to care you'd have to be an adversary of the manufacturer who published the specification. Generally they publish these details in order to encourage people to port OSs and compilers.

If a tree infringes in the woods and the silicon manufacturer doesn't hear it...

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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by AnthonyMouse on Friday November 15, 2019 @11:32PM (#21551030)
Then you, for example, write a compiler for SPARC in 1990 and distribute it for twenty years, only to see Oracle buy Sun and then decide they'd rather sue you for twenty years of copyright infringement than maintain your cooperation in continuing to produce a compiler for a processor architecture they're planning to discontinue.
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