Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077 at Ultra on an M1 MBP

Re:Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077... by renewiltord on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @05:32AM (#36224741)

How are Wine and friends actually legal considering the Oracle v Google thing on Java?

I've always loved it but really do wonder. That was a blasphemous verdict.

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Re:Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077... by thesuperbigfrog on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @05:37AM (#36224768)

>> How are Wine and friends actually legal considering the Oracle v Google thing on Java?

>> I've always loved it but really do wonder. That was a blasphemous verdict.

So you think APIs and interfaces should be copyrightable despite decades of precedent?

If so, Oracle owes IBM a huge amount of damages for using SQL in Oracle database software without a license.

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Re:Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077... by nrclark on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @05:51AM (#36224840)

Google won that in the end. It went all the way to the Supreme Court.

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Re:Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077... by nilptr on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @06:17AM (#36224996)

Won for now. Supreme Court decisions are reversible in time.

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Re:Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077... by renewiltord on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @06:12AM (#36224965)

Oh they did? Well, that’s good news. Something is good in this world.

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