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by alexchamberlain 4794 days ago
This was really hard to read... I had to give up.

Did the Oracle vs Google case prove that APIs aren't the new patent?
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mickaelkel 4794 days ago
It was "copyright troll" You can consider it at a API oriented "patent troll". This proves that some API providers want to keep juridical and commercial protection out of their APIs, as it was a patent. Have you seen all the recent API Terms of service changes because of competiting business model of 3rd party applications?
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Guvante 4793 days ago
Except it isn't the same as the only time your API is valuable is if you have data, which you wouldn't have if it was a shell company.
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