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ocdtrekkie on April 5, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [...

> Pity the poor multi-billion dollar corporation, they just can't ever get a break.

This would sound like a convincing position if the company abusing them wasn't a trillionaire corporation. Oracle is literally "the little guy" here.

gamblor956 on April 5, 2021 [–]

Now their positions are greatly reversed. But at the time of the copying in 2005, Oracle was many times Googles' size.

This case began in 2010 as Oracle attempting to smother a similarly sized competitor...after Oracle acquired the actual creators of Java.

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