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 OzPeter · 2013-02-21 11:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You mean just the BSA?
Why are the Boy Scouts interested in this anyway?
Because sharing things is so gay .. and we can't have our little preciouses exposed to gay things .. it might .. you know .. convert them.

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