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Why Oracle will win its Java copyright case – and why you'll be glad when it does

Charles 9

Re: Hmmm

You're talking Compaq v. IBM. The catch here is that Compaq provably used clean-room techniques to duplicate the BIOS featureset and then release their own API for it. According to Oracle, Google flat-out copied the header files directly which could well be under pay-to-see restrictions like the Red Book for audio CDs, which you have to BUY a copy to read.

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