[ale] Buwahahah! This is great

[Steve Litt]

This reminds me a little of the lawsuit where Lotus successfully sued
Borland for copying the "look and feel" of Lotus 123. I find both cases
disturbing.

SteveT

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On Fri, 29 May 2015 09:32:19 -0400
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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