The Supreme Court has just handed down a stunning new ruling, siding with tech giant Google over its long-standing copyright dispute with Google.
BREAKING: In major copyright battle between tech giants, SCOTUS sides w/ Google over Oracle, finding that Google didnt commit copyright infringement when it reused lines of code in its Android operating system. The code came from Oracle's JAVA SE platform. https://t.co/vAK7jMPa8e
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) April 5, 2021
The court ruled in Google’s favor by a vote of 6-2, with conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett not participating.
As Infoworld reports, the ruling will have wide-ranging consequences and will ultimately be a boon for small businesses:
Competing with established software companies will get harder
Copyrighting APIs would turn the companies that make them into gatekeepers who get to decide who uses their most valuable APIs. The tech industry is highly competitive, and some companies might deny others access just to make their lives difficult. Or, companies could deny API access to anyone they disagree with, politically or otherwise, opening up another set of issues.
In addition, a lack of open source APIs would make incumbents much harder to dislodge. Right now, if a company isn’t providing a great service behind its API, an upstart can easily enter the market with a better service and use the same API to make that service compatible with existing software, ensuring simple adoption. With API copyright, that goes out the window. Companies would have to make major infrastructure changes to adopt the new solution.
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that is asinine, in my opinion. If I do a simple direct quote, without ID, i would get nailed but they stole code!!
Guess if it’s ok for China to steal intellectual property it’s ok for Google. So now we have the precedent setting “Google defense” to get around intellectual property abuses. Steal away!!
Here we go already…. ACB sitting with her thumb up her rear instead of making any kind of decision. Just what we need…..
She has been a total waste.
Your an idiot, BrewDubbs. She didn’t make a decision because she was not in the court for the initial arguments. She does not have her thumb up her rear. Go back to Civics class and try to stay awake this time.
the question is why was she not in court for the initial argumrents? So it could be that she had her thumb up her ass. Me I have had lots of classes on law and constitution, i.e. civics, so tell me to go back to civics. That would be funny. Hey if she had a vvery good excuse, just I can’t think of any other that advoidence, hence thumb up ass but who knows
Commies in charge now.
We.are.Venezuela
Their (Venezuela) Voting System was used for our coup….uhhh…election.
plagiarism and dementia jo is the king of plagiarism!
Is this in preparation to go after Trump when he starts his own social media site to complete with these socialist sites?
As a software developer this is absolutely frightening. Now any Joe can steal my code and not compensate me for my work. I guess if I cobbled together bits and pieces of these justices work they would find out what it feels like when someone takes what’s not theirs and profits off of it.
Well there ya go, the corrupt Supreme Court continue to stand up for their fellow corrupt satanic Nazi democrats and turn their back on the good and decent American citizens. Hopefully they will be arrested very soon!
It doesn’t seem to matter anymore if Amy Coney- Barret participates or doesn’t participate.
Hooray, take down time
Devalue stocks
Sell stocks
Protest
any court that sides with google opn anything, ok being a bit over reaching but pretty much true, is an asshole. Has Oracle given away their rights to thier code? Or are all these judges becoming woke. How sad because these idiots shhould be the ones who can see through all this sh.t