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Re:Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf] by lumost on Monday April 05, 2021 @12:46PM (#26701345)
Can't this argument be used to copy the x86 interface and avoid paying license fees to either Intel or ARM for the instruction set?
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Re:Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf] by monocasa on Monday April 05, 2021 @12:54PM (#26701465)
The word on the street is that is primarily protected by patents, which explicitly protect against from scratch competing implementations, unlike copyright protection which only protects against verbatim copying of the original work.

On the plus side though, they only get 20 years of protection. x86-64 in it's original form should be up for grabs pretty soon here.

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Re:Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf] by heavyset_go on Monday April 05, 2021 @08:14PM (#26706403)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence_of_the_IBM_PC_on_the...
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