Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google

Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by cookiengineer on Friday October 09, 2020 @04:19AM (#24727895)

Well, if Oracle wins this court battle, the effect will be disastrous because Microsoft is then legally able to sue everybody that uses their NT kernel API, including Oracle.

The whole software industry would have to change, and the potential pitfalls of buying software without an open source license would be too great a risk for pretty much everyone that developed any software for any proprietary environment.

I mean, using a proprietary GPU could be enough to get sued because you are rendering things on the screen, right?

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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by thu2111 on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:30AM (#24730236)

No they wouldn't. MS would only be able to sue people who reimplemented the NT kernel API for their own projects, which is basically just Wine and ReactOS, but those projects have no money.

This case is not about using APIs to build apps. Standard software licenses clearly allow that. The case is about reimplementing them.

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