Comments on: Google vs Oracle: Jury torn but case plows on

By: freesharehere

freesharehere — Fri, 18 May 2012 05:38:00 +0000

Hello Everyone. I don”t know what would be the results but i really
enjoyed this article. Because we need both Google and oracle, so why
should we differentiate each other. Both have their unique importance.

By: jobardu

jobardu — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:08:00 +0000

Copyrighting a language or API isn’t good public policy. Copyright is too broad and ill defined to make this sort of claim am meaningful guide. How can someone know whether or not they are infringing? Patent is better, at least it is more specific, but still not a good idea for languages.

For example, what if the Society of Plastic Surgeons copyrighted a nose design tool. Everyone who “infringed” on their nose designs would have to pay a royalty every time they breathed. Or what if a big pharma microbiologist copyright a human genome. Anyone who infringed would have to pay a royalty.

The fallacy in all this is that it will bring the economy and innovation to a halt. It is the fallacy of the rentier economy. If everyone is paying economic rents to rights holders then no one has money to buy products, new or otherwise. This royalty for everything is killing the goose that lays the golden egg and goes far beyond the original intent of providing the incentive necessary to continue invention.

By: exseattlite

exseattlite — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:45:00 +0000

Most software patents are not worth anything. A good team could find prior art for almost all of them, and if not most are obvious. Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, and Google alll have software patents where I was personally had prior art, sometimes years before they utilized the technology.

By: riceryder

riceryder — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:29:00 +0000

Oracle bought Sun just to sue Google…LOVE JAVA BUT F@#K ELLISON!

By: fran farrell

fran farrell — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:11:00 +0000

Total victory for Google. Judge scorns Oracle ‘disgorge’ profits argument; will settle the APIs are not language pipe dream as well.

As for the copied code, $1B * 9/15M = $600, the price of a trip from SFO to Baltimore on Southwest. If the Google lawyer wanted to, he could say that finding the range of an array is taught in any first course in programming, but that would be obvious. Besides, sending a lawyer to Baltimore, steerage class is more appropriate.

By: abill

abill — Tue, 08 May 2012 11:41:00 +0000

another subject on which people without a clue were called in to decide. APIs – application programming interfaces are implemented to allow modular design of about anything. They can be internal – to an operating system, e.g. between screen controller and internal memory, or external allowing independent applications like all the ones you can get at the apple or google app. stores. there are hundreds of APIs in any operating system and/or device. Trademarking APIs is sheer nonsense. Just consider somebody trademarks the general shape of a staircase or window.