[ale] Buwahahah! This is great

[Charles Shapiro]

Yeh, it's tres crazy.  The first judge (the esteemed William Alsup)
actually learned to program in Java (
http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/05/judge-alsup-codes.html ) so he could
understand the issues, then wound up ruling that APIs were NOT
copyrightable.  Alas, the court on appeal was not so thorough.

-- CHS


On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:32 AM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> For fucks sake. I haven't even the words.
>
> If I could get sued for wiring code that does nothing more than links to
> another library, I don't see any reasonable not rational choice but to find
> something else to do!
>
> How can they not see that it is exactly the same as the interface of
> keyboard to user, or steering wheel to driver? The steering wheel is an
> universally accepted "operational interface" to a vehicle. If an API can be
> copyrighted, which is nothing more than a descriptor of what's behind it,
> then it should be perfectly fair to abuse copyright as patent on the
> steering wheel.
>
> What a mindfuck.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 28, 2015, at 11:02 AM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> You probably don't want to read it if you're already mad about something
> else..
>
>
> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150526/16550931121/obama-administration-files-totally-clueless-argument-concerning-software-copyrights-supreme-court-case.shtml
>
> -- CHS
>
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