Judge Alsup learns to code and schools Oracle

Re:Judge Alsup learns to code and schools Oracle by redthrowaway on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @11:41PM (#3985280)

> they require creativity and insight to create.

So did Huffman encoding. So did the Laplace transform. So did quicksort, red-black trees, and hell, even the Universal Turing Machine. These are all the result of many hours of creative endeavor, yet they are none of them copyrightable.

This is the same thing that makes Wolfram's claims of ownership of the existence of a proof of Rule 110 CAs as universal calculators particularly onerous.

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Re:Judge Alsup learns to code and schools Oracle by scott_s on Thursday May 17, 2012 @03:20PM (#3988589)

I gladly accept grellas's arguments. But your examples are ideas, which would fall under patents, not copyright. Source code does fall under copyright, so we need reasoning to explain why APIs - which are a part of source code - do not.

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