Microsoft, BSA and Others Push For Appeal On Oracle v. Google Ruling

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 21, 2013 @10:54AM from the poor-innocent-business-model dept.

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.'"

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Re:Microsoft, BSA, EMC, Netapp et al... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-02-21 11:39 · Score: 5, Informative

BSA is a front for Microsoft, with its other members being enlisted purely to disguise Microsoft's dominant role
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Software_Alliance#Criticism
Re:Destabilization by Xest · 2013-02-21 20:32 · Score: 5, Informative

This is Ballmer logic at work, he can't see the road ahead. All he knows is that Google out-innovated them on search and mobile and he wants that destroyed, whatever the cost.
He's a bit like Steve Jobs in that respect, only without the ability to grow profits at all.