On Mon, 07 May 2012 21:56:31 +0200, phil swenson <[email protected]>
wrote:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/05/jury-rules-google-violated-copyright-law-google-moves-for-mistrial.ars
I'm living in a period in which I'm losing most of the consideration of
reputation of people, institutions, politicians, "experts", magazines,
etc. Perhaps it's because I live in Europe. When I see statements such as
the following one this trend speeds up (emphasis mine):
"... the end result is that Java may not be as OPEN SOURCE as it was
thought to be. Oracle may be able to essentially take Java out of the
PUBLIC DOMAIN, at least as far as its use in cell phones."
We know that FLOSS has got licenses that must be respected and the key of
the trial was just to understand whether or not Google violated it, not
whether FLOSS licenses have to be respected or not, which is obvious. The
author seems unaware of the difference between LICENSED OPEN SOURCE and
PUBLIC DOMAIN. Needless to say that Java has never been in the public
domain. What the hell is that "take Java out of..." about?
"If the verdict that Android infringed copyrights stands, it could put
programmers in a difficult situation. Java is an open source language, but
now it's not clear how free programmers are to use it, since Oracle has
said that anyone following the Java APIs—which are basically sets of
instructions about how to use Java—needs a license."
Using Java != releasing an alternate implementation. It seems that the
author of the article is well positioned to win the FUD prize of the year.
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