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Opposition Mounts To Oracle's Attempt To Copyright Java APIs

Posted by timothy on from the but-larry-wants-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes with a bit from Groklaw: "The remarkable outpouring of support for Google in the Oracle v. Google appeal continues, with a group of well-known innovators, start-ups, and those who fund them — innovators like Ray Ozzie, Tim O'Reilly, Mitch Kapor, Dan Bricklin, and Esther Dyson — standing with [Thursday's] group of leading computer scientists in telling the court that Oracle's attempt to copyright its Java APIs would be damaging to innovation." As usual, Groklaw gives a cogent, readable introduction to the issue.

6 of 187 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Link? by sgt+scrub · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot readers needing a link so they can read the article? I see why you posted anonymous.

    --
    Having to work for a living is the root of all evil.
  2. Re:*sigh* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Typical Java approach. 3 lines of code for a two letter patch that changes nothing useful and doesn't match the documentation,.

  3. Re:Groklaw's Gas Pedal analogy by drgould · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's not "dumb down" the issue by making analogies that don't really apply.

    Analogies are like scabs. If you pick at them, they bleed.

  4. Re:*sigh* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tasty sizzling ponyburgers, that's why.

  5. Re:The End by radarskiy · · Score: 5, Funny

    "They could start killing babies and it wouldn't affect their bottom line."

    Of course it would affect the bottom line. Do you think they'd be killing babies for free?

  6. Re:both money and control, The Oracle Way by tolkienfan · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's a difference between Larry Ellison and God:
    God doesn't think he's Larry Ellison.