Op-ed: Oracle attorney says Google's court victory might kill the GPL
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/op-ed-oracle-attorney-says-googles-court-victory-might-kill-the-gpl/
Annette Hurst is an attorney at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
who represented Oracle in the recent Oracle v. Google trial.
This op-ed represents her own views and is not intended to
represent those of her client or Ars Technica ... The
developer community may be celebrating today what it perceives
as a victory in Oracle v. Google. Google won a verdict that an
unauthorized, commercial, competitive, harmful use of software
in billions of products is fair use. No copyright expert would
have ever predicted such a use would be considered fair.
Before celebrating, developers should take a closer look. Not
only will creators everywhere suffer from this decision if it
remains intact, but the free software movement itself now
faces substantial jeopardy.
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Oh give me a friggin' break. What a pile of ...
--Lauren--
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