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Jury says Google's Android does not infringe Oracle patents - Cell Phones & Mobile Devi... - 0 views

www.geek.com/...fringe-oracle-patents-20120524

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shared by anonymous on 25 May 12 - No Cached
  • The judge still needs to decide if APIs can be copyrighted, which is the only count Google lost in phase one. If the judge decides they are not, then it becomes much harder for Oracle to continue on.
  • Oracle is likely to seek an appeal, but even if it gets another shot, the information coming from jurors makes it clear that Oracle’s arguments were not even close to convincing.
  • Oracle might still end up with some kind of payout in the future, depending on how judge Aslup decides on the remaining issues. There might even need to be another jury to decide on damages later, but right now, Oracle has won essentially nothing.
  • anonymous on 25 May 12
     
    Suck it Oracle.
anonymous

Oracle thinks you can copyright a programming language, Google disagrees | The Verge - 0 views

www.theverge.com/...programming-language-copyright

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shared by anonymous on 14 Apr 12 - No Cached
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      anonymous on 14 Apr 12
       
      Comments here are awesome too.
  • anonymous on 14 Apr 12
     
    Oracle is suing Google over the use of their Java API's in Android. This should be an interesting case. Google argues that while you can copyright a finished product, you shouldn't be able to copyright the computer language used to build the product - just like a novelist can copyright a book but nobody can copyright English. Oracle disagrees and says that if the language is unique enough, then it should be protected. They cite Klingon as an example. I read through Oracle's filing and it actually looks pretty strong. I didn't bother reading Google's because it's pretty clear that Google is missing the point that Oracle isn't upset that they used Java, but that they bundled all the extra API's. I really feel for the judge and jury having to hear this case. Oracle's brief isn't exactly light on the technical details...
Jennifer Parsons

Top EU court upholds right to resell downloaded software | Ars Technica - 2 views

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shared by Jennifer Parsons on 06 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • The European Court of Justice has ruled that customers have a right to resell software they purchase regardless of whether the software was originally distributed on a physical medium or downloaded over the Internet.
  • But the court did place some important limits on customers' rights to resell used software licenses. First, if a customer purchases a multiseat license, it is not allowed to split the license up into parts and sell them separately.
  • The court also held that after reselling the software, the previous owner must render his own copy of the software inoperable.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 06 Jul 12
     
    Now, this took place in the European Union, not the United States (where software is still "licensed" instead of actually sold), but what it means is that people who pay a fee to have software distributed to them now have right of first sale to that license-- that is, they can redistribute it to another person, just as I can give a book I purchased to someone else.
  • anonymous on 07 Jul 12
     
    This is great - thanks for posting.
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