Re:Google (Potentially) Blows the Door Off Oracle's Copyrigh...
by alanh on Thursday April 26, 2012 @08:47PM
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Not sure why you pasted the quote as code. It takes extreme side-scrolling to read.
Re:Google (Potentially) Blows the Door Off Oracle's Copyrigh...
by Steko on Friday April 27, 2012 @01:12AM
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Apologies I didn't add any format markup, it must have been code on groklaw.
Re:Google (Potentially) Blows the Door Off Oracle's Copyrigh...
by Symmetry on Friday April 27, 2012 @08:20AM
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Everything is actually completely stripped of formatting when you paste it into a Hacker News comment box. What happened is that a line beginning with whitespace is treated as code. So when I add a line with " Like so" I get:
Like so.
Re:Google (Potentially) Blows the Door Off Oracle's Copyrigh...
by paolopatron on Thursday April 26, 2012 @09:02PM
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Re:Google (Potentially) Blows the Door Off Oracle's Copyrigh...
by Natsu on Friday April 27, 2012 @05:26AM
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I read the judge's reaction to the argument, which is more important than what either party has to say. Oracle has tried to have this issue both ways.
And that precedent probably won't do them much good, because the copying here isn't the same as copying whole articles, however much Oracle's lawyers have tried to say otherwise.
Re:Google (Potentially) Blows the Door Off Oracle's Copyrigh...
by Natsu on Friday April 27, 2012 @05:27PM
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Well, I just read the reports about how it went down. Oracle cut off their foot to save their leg. Then Google showed up with a chainsaw, offering to "help."
So yeah, Oracle's case might be salvageable, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Did you read Oracle's reply[1] or just the caricature at the original link?
"Google argues that the entire Java platform is necessarily the “work as a whole” because that is what was registered with the Copyright Office. Courts have soundly rejected that argument.. As explained in Los Angeles Times v. Free Republic, supra:
[1] http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120426075025438#9...