Oracle copied Amazon’s API—was that copyright infringement?
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Opinion: Copying APIs is essential to competition in the software industry.
Apparently the gander is also sauced
time for a nap. I didn't understand that blurb after I wrote it.
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Opinion: Copying APIs is essential to competition in the software industry.
Apparently the gander is also sauced
time for a nap. I didn't understand that blurb after I wrote it.
The article says:
An API is essentially a language for instructing a computer on what to do.
Golly! I've learned something new, today! Amazon's claim is, of course, utter bollocks. Coping API class names, etc, so that people can use familiar commands to do similar things on different platforms, does not in any way infringe any copyright. What it does do is make it easier for people to transfer their skills from one platform to another, and that is only in everyone else's interests, not amazon's. [edit] I named the wrong megalithic, egomaniacal corporation [/edit]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The article says:
An API is essentially a language for instructing a computer on what to do.
Golly! I've learned something new, today! Amazon's claim is, of course, utter bollocks. Coping API class names, etc, so that people can use familiar commands to do similar things on different platforms, does not in any way infringe any copyright. What it does do is make it easier for people to transfer their skills from one platform to another, and that is only in everyone else's interests, not amazon's. [edit] I named the wrong megalithic, egomaniacal corporation [/edit]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
You are right of course. Given that Oracle is suing Google for doing with the Java "API" the same as Oracle has done with Amazon's "API", Oracle's suit comes across as a bit disingenuous and hypocritical.
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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You are right of course. Given that Oracle is suing Google for doing with the Java "API" the same as Oracle has done with Amazon's "API", Oracle's suit comes across as a bit disingenuous and hypocritical.
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote:
Oracle's suit comes across as a bit disingenuous and hypocritical.
And is also why I got the megalithic, egomaniacal corporation names mixed up.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!