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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by az226 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @06:46PM (#24724756)
Couldn't edit my comment above to add: The interoperability argument is also disingenuous because Google didn't copy all of Oracle's Java libraries. It only copied the ones it deemed necessary to provide sufficient coverage for the needs of the Android platform and that developers of Oracle's Java community were familiar with. As the justices pointed out, it's a one-way interoperability.
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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by Dylan16807 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:05PM (#24726336)
> If this wasn't protected, you would have zero incentive to build high quality libraries or to invest in making the platform popular if someone else can just come along and copy it.

I guess I must be hallucinating all those S3-compatible libraries and services.

> As the justices pointed out, it's a one-way interoperability.

It makes a large majority of the same code work on both. That's not one-way. Porting in either direction is vastly improved versus them making their own APIs.

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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by az226 on Friday October 09, 2020 @09:44PM (#24736120)
Fair enough. The decision to allow someone else to copy the code should be up to the owner and not be given away.

Also copyright protections aren’t given up because it makes a third party’s life easier. That’s also what was said during the hearing.

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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by Dylan16807 on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:14PM (#24736250)
> Also copyright protections aren’t given up because it makes a third party’s life easier. That’s also what was said during the hearing.

Yeah but if your mandate is to promote the arts and sciences then you desperately want interoperability to be easy and encouraged.

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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by sergeykish on Friday October 09, 2020 @03:47AM (#24727758)
Open Office supports only so much of Microsoft Word .doc, antiword [1] supports even less. Should we consider them disingenuous?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiword

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