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Re:Let Oracle own API's, Justice Dept tells top court in sur... by Oletros on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @09:55AM (#9611317)
So yes, you're saying that Microsoft should sue Wine developers because they stole the API
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Re:Let Oracle own API's, Justice Dept tells top court in sur... by ChairmanZach on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @10:34AM (#9611610)
Why should they? Microsoft has nothing to gain from doing so and reverse engineering interfaces or implementing them under fair use is already allowed.

Wine is also something done explicitly to create compatability, Google made sure Android was not compatible with "regular" Java.

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Re:Let Oracle own API's, Justice Dept tells top court in sur... by Oletros on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @11:06AM (#9611860)
> Why should they? Microsoft has nothing to gain from doing so

Tell us what can benefit Oracle by suing Google.

> Wine is also something done explicitly to create compatability, Google made sure Android was not compatible with "regular" Java.

Android is compatible with Java syntax. And even Java ME, the java developed for mobile platforms, is not compatible with regular java so, what is your point?

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