On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Paul Bagyenda <[email protected]> wrote:
> Seems to have fallen through the cracks, but very important: (Java) APIs > are not copyrightable: > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120531173633275 > > Doesn't the outcome of this case imply one should think *very* carefully before releasing software you have commercial aspirations for as Open Source? Essentially, a multi-billion dollar company who sees value in what you're doing can essentially "take over" your project by forking it, extending it, maintaining it as open source, and then proceed to mint millions (or billions) of dollars from it, without you getting a single cent :-). Oracle's aside, I don't think Sun was very happy with the way things went and the fragmentation that Android presented, with nil reward to Sun for for Sun's efforts in building the millions of Java developers that Android leans on heavily.
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