[MrEdd]

I find myself oddly...
With the evil google.

Not for the stated reasons, because computer code by its purpose and by its use properly belongs under patent law rather than copyright law.

The programming industry as a whole - even extending to people choosing to work in that field now deserve to lose anything that they might lose now.

[billakay]

This is an absolutely terrible analysis. Google did not copy (or admit to copying) ANY actual code implementation. What did they did copy is the INTERFACE or API, which is a completely different thing, and the use of copyright law here is absurd.

To make it clear, what Sun/Oracle alleges is that they have a set of functions like this:

int doSomething(int param1, int param2)

This is a function called doSomething that takes two integer parameters and returns an integer result.

Under Sun/Oracle's own admission doSomething was re-implemented by Google sight unseen...the actual working code has nothing to do with Sun's code. They are instead alleging that the production of an identical interface (function names, parameters, return values) compatible with Sun's is a violation of copyright law.

This is prima facie absurd.

[Varda]

Google was founded on theft. The search algorithms were stolen. They settled the lawsuit but I always wondered if the government could go after them based on the unversity having used federal funds in research and development.

[nickcarraway]

Well, that wouldn’t make them any different than any of the other big tech companies, like Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, etc.

[nickcarraway]

Didn’t sun make Java Open Source?

[Vaduz]

Google must have obtained their idea from congress democrats,wonder if they get sued?.

[Chode]

and here i thought it was Do No EVIL!!!

[ShadowAce]

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