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Microsoft, BSA and Others Push For Appeal On Oracle v. Google Ruling
sl4shd0rk writes "In 2012, Oracle took Google to court over the use of Java in Android. Judge William Alsup brought the ruling that the structure of APIs could not be copyrighted at all. Emerging from the proceedings, it was learned that Alsup himself had some programming background and wasn't bedazzled by Oracle's thin arguments on the range-checking function. The ruling came, programmers rejoiced and Oracle vowed Appeal. It seems that time is coming now, nearly a year later, as Microsoft, BSA, EMC, Netapp, et al. get behind Oracle to overturn Alsup's ruling citing 'destabilization' of the 'entire software industry.'"
Too bad there's no giant meteor to wipe out this batch of dinosaurs.
You mean just the BSA?
Why are the Boy Scouts interested in this anyway?
Being off your meds is the first stop towards Score:5 on Slashdot.
Everyone's been telling me (not here, just everyone else on the web) that Microsoft is better now - that they aren't quite the assholes they were in the 90's/early 2000's.
In all fairness to Microsoft's formerly-evil self, the new Microsoft certainly is "better", and they aren't "quite" the assholes they used to be, even considering this. It's like they've gone from chaotic evil to neutral evil.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
This has nothing to do with some lame ass Boy Scouts. It's about cool old motorcycles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BSA_motorcycles
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
"Our legal system was not designed as a support for any particular kind of business model" except banking.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
Meanwhile, Microsoft would claim all the songs written in C#.
A major victory, or a minor inconvenience?
I sense treble brewing.
Have gnu, will travel.