Google Has Won
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their case against Oracle. The Supreme Court has decided in their favor in the battle of copyrighting APIs : Supreme Court hands Google a victory in a multibillion-dollar case against Oracle - CNN[^]. This could open up a lot of doors. One I hope opens is AMD's support for CUDA on their GPUs. That could be huge!
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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their case against Oracle. The Supreme Court has decided in their favor in the battle of copyrighting APIs : Supreme Court hands Google a victory in a multibillion-dollar case against Oracle - CNN[^]. This could open up a lot of doors. One I hope opens is AMD's support for CUDA on their GPUs. That could be huge!
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
Thank goodness! Now look out for the change in the law to make the judgment irrelevant...
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Thank goodness! Now look out for the change in the law to make the judgment irrelevant...
That would not be a surprise but they passed again on the question of the copyright itself so who knows when that law will be changed? It will likely take an act of Congress at this point, as it rightly should.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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That would not be a surprise but they passed again on the question of the copyright itself so who knows when that law will be changed? It will likely take an act of Congress at this point, as it rightly should.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
Rick York wrote:
It will likely take an act of Congress at this point, as it rightly should.
Oh absolutely, that is what I am suggesting will happen, albeit not immediately. Also, such a change in the law need not alter the principle of copyright in general; it would only need to alter the legal scope of certain types of algorithm. That's much easier to wriggle through with big money backing than a wholesale alteration of copyright.