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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by enraged_camel on Thursday October 08, 2020 @08:32PM (#24725496)
I think your definition of "creativity" is too narrow.

Which is perhaps not surprising, since you say you're an engineer. ;)

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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by andrewjl on Thursday October 08, 2020 @08:41PM (#24725545)
I think you're misunderstanding what I wrote. The creativity that people commonly associate with an API is in the behavior of the API, not in API code. API behavior is no doubt a creative work. If you consider the API to be nothing but code, then your definition of an "API" is too narrow.

Nothing I've said should be construed as denying the richness and brilliance found in the design of software and software-based abstractions.

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