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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by luckylion on Friday October 09, 2020 @03:16AM (#24727617)
Sure, patents are a different thing, but they serve a similar purpose. "If you don't have to to the research and invest in creating the technology by copying, you can do it cheaper which the market will reward" is what both copyright and patents are created to change.
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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by imtringued on Friday October 09, 2020 @07:48AM (#24728938)
They don't serve a similar purpose.

Copyright protects authorship.

Patents protect against reinvention.

It's clear that Oracle needs a patent unless Google outright stole the standard library.

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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by az226 on Friday October 09, 2020 @09:52PM (#24736160)
News at 11, they did.

In seriousness, they didn’t copy the libraries just once, but at least 3 times over time as Oracle continued to make investments in changes and additions to the libraries.

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