Posted on 10/14/2020 5:27:27 AM PDT by gattaca
That was a different kind of issue, with major political and constitutional ramifications. And, as in many appellate cases, the oral argument here seems to make clear how the Court is going to rule.
Google, facebook, and apple have so much cash they could buyout anyone or anything that they need thousands of times over.
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That’s a good thing. Buying is not stealing.
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I have no problem with it in theory. Implied in my statement is the context of cheating Java. If they can’t buy what they want, they can steal it like almost no one else can get away with. They don’t just have a lot of influence and power, they can pay a thousand lawyers to string out legal defense the way you or I pay for a cup of coffee.
The Chinese Model of business...
google has a small problem named Larry Ellison, Founder of Oracle and a real American patriot.
They would have to have Ellison killed before they tried to buy Oracle {just saying}.
Oh no, I am sure that when online, Chief Justice Roberts consistently used a VPN and a cover name, something classy like “Big Gavel John.”
Something tells me this won’t be the last case the Court will have to decide about people cheating and stealing their way to the top.
From what I understand google used the public interface to Java and re-implemented the library.
Up until now this has always been legal under copyright law.
This would be a dangerous precedent to adopt. Good for lawyers, bad for developers.
Heard by a 4-4 court? And what did Justices from “the other side” have to say and ask?
Bkmk Google java
Yeah, half expecting Roberts and gang to make some deals to rush this through beforehand FOR Google.
it’s a publically traded company, and Google can just buy the majority of the shares. With or without ellisons approval.
That’s correct. They are only talking about copying the interfaces to the code, not the code that actually does any work. According to the Internet: the Android operating system runs on 12-15 million lines. Oracle is complaining about 11,000 lines of code being copied within an OS of 12-15 million lines of code.
I get the desire to paint Google as bad guys, but they are not in this particular case. Oracle is just trying to make money off of the Android OS. The main issue is that IF Oracle wins, then no other company is going to be able to reuse interface code, which defeats the main purpose of creating interface code to begin with. The whole software world is going to take a hit if Oracle wins, and you can bet that larger software companies (like Oracle) are going to use this hammer to crush smaller software companies.
YES!!
If he is re-elected in November with a Republican majority in both houses of Congress, truth will be exposed. This is what leftists fear and dread most.
The ruthless pursuit of truth leads to unexpected discoveries. Truth seekers are prepared to receive and to accept truth, whatever it may be.
The untruthful are not. They hide from truth, especially those who have good reason to fear it.
Agreed. Duplication of interfaces is simply making a work-alike product, not copying the original.
It sounds like the Supreme Court is going to deliver an epic butt-kicking to Google.
Let’s hope so. No company had more visits to the White House than Google during obama’s presidency. They’re extremists.
It was about impossible to find anything positive on the web about Trump in late 2015
Ellison is an interesting person.
Yep.
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