On 19/04/2017 09:59, fudmer rieley wrote:
> The Oracle purchase of Sun allows oracle to claim ownership in
> application software which the whole world contributed to?
> Is that correct?
No, it is completely wrong.
Sun owned the copyright of the code (as a consequence of StarDivision
acquisition
There is much debate about whether software should be the subject of
patents, or rather, copyright/copyleft. The website groklaw.net has a
lot of very interesting material about this. It would be very
interesting to know where the Trump dynasty stands on that; could end
up making a lot of differenc
The Oracle purchase of Sun allows oracle to claim ownership in
application software which the whole world contributed to?
Is that correct?
Under prior patent law, it was not the first to file but the first
to invent the objects of a patent that had the valid claim to
actual patent rights? Unde
