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Re:Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork And... by SoapSeller on Saturday February 08, 2014 @11:22AM (#7201570)
Didn't Google won the the "Oracle vs Google" case on the ground that APIs aren't patentable?

What prevent MS(or any other big player) to re-implement GMS?

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Re:Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork And... by scholia on Saturday February 08, 2014 @02:28PM (#7202218)
The "Oracle vs Google" case isn't over, it's up for appeal...
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Re:Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork And... by BugBrother on Saturday February 08, 2014 @11:39AM (#7201623)
It would be funny if Google copied Microsoft's monopolist strategies to avoid Windows cloning (APIs are ever changing and complex, especially regarding bug compatibility, no protocol docs+obfuscation, etc)... :-)
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