[ale] Buwahahah! This is great

[Pete Hardie]

I doubt this will stand..  I'm fairly sure IBM has a big enough stake in
UNIX/Linux business to be willing to fight it, and the Big G can take this
further.

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> Yes I remember the first judge.
>
> But he doesn't matter. It's the nine morons who make the law of the land
> who matter. And how they cannot hold themselves to at least the same
> standard as a lesser judge, despite the fact that they have literally no
> reason to make a false or undue ruling.... Well, I just don't know how they
> could've screwed that poor pooch so awful.
>
> As I understand it, this is now the law of the land. That puts everything
> we've ever done at great risk here. We use Linux. It is an implementation
> of the UNIX API, and several vendors own rights that they can now use to
> stop its use.
>
> Java? Well we KNOW Oracle will sue you.
>
> Hrm... Is SQL an API? Better stop using them in the United States just to
> be safe.
>
> I mean really. Now we need to write our own kernel and an intentionally
> incompatible C library to prevent being sued (and losing the lawsuit!)
>
> I honestly don't know how to work in this environment. The more I think
> about it the more it seems to me I'd better avoid the problem entirely by
> ducking under the wing of an employer and throwing the idea of the business
> away.
>
> Or move to Canada which welcomes programmers and still provides among the
> best of environments for them.
>
> Think one of the wives would like that idea. The other one not so much.
> The kids? Who knows.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 29, 2015, at 9:32 AM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Yeh, it's tres crazy.  The first judge (the esteemed William Alsup)
> actually learned to program in Java (
> http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/05/judge-alsup-codes.html ) so he could
> understand the issues, then wound up ruling that APIs were NOT
> copyrightable.  Alas, the court on appeal was not so thorough.
>
> -- CHS
>
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:32 AM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
>
>> For fucks sake. I haven't even the words.
>>
>> If I could get sued for wiring code that does nothing more than links to
>> another library, I don't see any reasonable not rational choice but to find
>> something else to do!
>>
>> How can they not see that it is exactly the same as the interface of
>> keyboard to user, or steering wheel to driver? The steering wheel is an
>> universally accepted "operational interface" to a vehicle. If an API can be
>> copyrighted, which is nothing more than a descriptor of what's behind it,
>> then it should be perfectly fair to abuse copyright as patent on the
>> steering wheel.
>>
>> What a mindfuck.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On May 28, 2015, at 11:02 AM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> You probably don't want to read it if you're already mad about something
>> else..
>>
>>
>> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150526/16550931121/obama-administration-files-totally-clueless-argument-concerning-software-copyrights-supreme-court-case.shtml
>>
>> -- CHS
>>
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