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12-05-2013, 04:59 PM
sl4shd0rk writes "In 2012, Oracle took Google to court over Java. In the balance hung the legalities of writing code to mimic the functionality of copyrighted software. The trial was set to determine how all future software would be written (and by whom). Oracle's entire case boiled down to an inadvertent 9 lines of code; an argument over a simple and basic comparison of a range of numbers. The presiding judge (who had some background in writing software) didn't buy it stating he had 'written blocks of code like rangeCheck a hundred times before.' A victory for more than just Google. This week, however, Microsoft, EMC, Oracle and Netapp have filed for appeal and seek to reverse the ruling. It's not looking good as the new bevy of judges Indicating they may side with Oracle on the issue." http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=Tech+Companies+Set+To+Appeal+2012+Orac le+Vs.+Google+Ruling%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1cny C5z) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F05%2F0252231%2Ftech-companies-set-to-appeal-2012-oracle-vs-google-ruling%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dface book) http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/12/05/0252231/tech-companies-set-to-appeal-2012-oracle-vs-google-ruling?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)
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