383: Java Justice

We have a different take on the Oracle v. Google case that may usher in an API copyright doom! Or so they say...

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Links:

• Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record — After 44 years, there’s finally a better way to find approximate solutions to the notoriously difficult traveling salesperson problem.
• The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language
• No, Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux — The choice will not really be Windows or Linux, it will be whether you boot Hyper-V or KVM first, and Windows and Ubuntu stacks will be tuned to run well on the other.
• Sun Microsystems - Wikipedia
• Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. - Wikipedia
• Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google — Supreme Court justices seem poised to allow copyrights on APIs.
• Android chief Andy Rubin said java.lang APIs are copyrighted in 2006 email — In 2006 email thread, Rubin said that Sun owned the intellectual property and brand for Java and that the Java.lang APIs were copyrighted. Over the next several years his thinking changed.
• Oracle vs Google - Android chief Rubin quizzed over Java emails
• Former Sun CEO says Google's Android didn't need license for Java APIs — Jonathan Schwartz testifies that Java APIs were not considered proprietary or protected by Sun, as long as Google didn't use the Java name
• The Mike Dominick Show Episode 39: Martin Wimpress of Canonical