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ChairmanZach

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    Comment #9611610

    Why should they? Microsoft has nothing to gain from doing so and reverse engineering interfaces or implementing them under fair use is already allowed. Wine is also something done …

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    Comment #9611296

    Not only do APIs resemble the chapters and headings of a book, they aslo include the contract that the content under those headings have exactly the same behaviour. Google didn't j…

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    Comment #9611252

    If they are done by copying someone elses work without permission then by copyright infringement. If done by implementing a standard or through a license etc. then no harm is done.…

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    Comment #9611212

    Wine is a reverse engineering of the APIs, not a blatant copy. edit: Straight from Wikipedia: "Wine is predominantly written using black-box testing reverse-engineering, to avoid c…

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    Comment #9610605

    Yet Google claims that the implementing code should be protected by copyright. How is "return a > b ? a : b;" not a method of operation if "public static int Max(int a, int b)" is.…

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    Comment #9610580

    The .NET standard libraries are part of the CLI which is a part of ISO/IEC 23271:2012, a standard. I have no idea when it comes to the EC2 API. Should it be legal for me to copy al…

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    Comment #9610146

    Finding non-shill opinions on this whole issue is quite hard. Once you check the facts of the case it's really quite open-and-shut in Oracle's favor.

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    Comment #9609734

    ""[Google]'s Section 102(b) argument also suffers from a broader flaw." (this sentence transitions from the Administration's rejection of Google's suggestion that declaring code is…

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