[uxp]

This makes me think of WINE. WINE takes the direct API, as in all the doSomethings(), and rewrites how it does that thing to work on a different environment than the original API call intended it to do. In the end, it may have the same exact or near exact result, but it does it in a completely different way.

I'd fear that if Oracle wins here, a huge number of open source projects like Wine and even the Gnash Flash alternative would find themselves under attack when they had previously been determined outside of court to be legitimate and fair uses of an API reimplementation.

[AnthonyMouse]

Absolutely. I mean forget about WINE, what about SQL? Recall that SQL originally came out of IBM. It kind of makes you wonder whether Oracle's lawyers have thought this one through.