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by topspin 2029 days ago
SCOTUS hasn't yet ruled on Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc. One imagines that if Oracle prevails in some demonstrative manner they may very well believe their flavor of SQL is a software interface protected by copywrite.

So will all the other 'software interface' owners of the world.
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xet7 2029 days ago
So if Oracle wins, can AWS sue Oracle for Oracle having implemented AWS S3 API ?

https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Object/Task...

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topspin 2028 days ago
AWS can probably sue most of the valley for that one.
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zozbot234 2029 days ago
IBM might have something to say about that, though.
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topspin 2029 days ago
Wouldn't that be ironic.
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pjmlp 2029 days ago
Apparently everyone keeps forgetting about ISO.
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topspin 2029 days ago
That's because everyone knows about the delta between ISO and real implementations.
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pjmlp 2029 days ago
Yet they still forget about pay to play with ISO standards.
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