[–] GreatDrok 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago (edited ago)
This should never have come to trial. An API is by definition a published interface allowing programmers to work with a software product without needing to know anything about the underlying software. Without an API, no-one could develop software to work with Java without it coming under the Java copyright and that would have killed Java stone dead. SUN knew this and encouraged people to use their API. APIs can also be reimplemented on top of other platforms to provide compatibility allowing software originally built on one platform to build and run on another. If Oracle won this case, the software industry would have been thrown into disarray and Java would have been blacklisted by every commercial software house as unfit for purpose. Oracle was never going to win anything, one way or another. It may have got cash out of Google but it would also have killed Java in the process. Glad to see sanity prevail.
[–] Womb_Raider 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Feels like they were cashing out on Java.
[–] mjmoore 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Good. Oracle has no high ground to stand on with the way they have attempted to profit from Redhat's source code. Good for the goose (the googse?) and all that.