Opposition Mounts To Oracle's Attempt To Copyright Java APIs

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.

Comments

Perhaps it is for the best.

[FlyingGuy]

Java is a god awful mess of a programming language to use. This just might kill it. I mean as much as a hate python ( it is a personal taste thing, not a reflection on the utility of the language ) I hate java even more.

If Gosling had spent as much time developing a great C libraries as he did the POS that is Java we would all be writing in the native language of Linux.