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> Had the ruling gone in Oracle's favor I can imagine some greedy company trying to procedurally-generate every API and copyright them all

It would have officially mean businesses and the US governments are locked by vendors and have no right to copy API in order to provide compatibility towards other systems.

Making « VendorLocking » legally valid in favor of the vendor.

Not gonna lie I was scared by the outcome of that judgement and the catastrophic defense of Google.

I’m now relieved !




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