If APIs are protected under copyright, every OSS project would be vulnerable to frivolous lawsuits by any company that claims their APIs have been ripped off. Closed source APIs are usually published, while source code isn't. So it's much harder to claim their code was stolen.
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Or a less extreme version is simply that we no longer have a progression of different APIs morphing, improving and building off each other. Every API becomes an evolutionary dead end. It'll waste untold amounts of programmer effort and lead to far less innovation.
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I think it just would force the release of any API to the public domain. No sane company would take dependency on any copyrighted API after such decision.
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You could be right, it could have the opposite effect, but I doubt it. You give capitalists the tools to crush competitors without actual innovation (read: legal maneuvering) and that’s what they’ll do. They’ll take the most expedient path.
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Leave it to Oracle to pull something like this. Let's hope it does not stand.
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This has me paranoid that there is an anchient patent troll, buried long ago, that has permeated the OSS community waiting to strike.
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Do you know of any good write ups that clearly state the Oracle case? Want to retweet but this article is pretty vague on specifics
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There is a Wikipedia article on this...
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