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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by abraae on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @04:46PM (#24842210)
> Google now has huge swaths of newly-found copyrightable APIs of its own that its sitting on.

is this really useful to Google?

In Oracle vs Google, yes Oracle stands to make some good coin from Google's "theft" of Java APIs.

But how would Google benefit? Which of it's APIs would it use to unleash hell on its competitors?

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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by chillfox on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:35PM (#24843785)
Yeah, I don't see how Google could pursue something like that without turning a large part of the market off using Google technologies. Doesn't mean they wont try though.
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