I sincerely hope we look back at this dark time and laugh at it like we do with powdered wigs. Unfortunately I just don't see any change on the horizon, so it's just as likely things will only get worse and worse, and innovation will be stifled even more.
Not copyright of API's
Copyright on actual implementation, not copyright on headers
This is absolutely and demonstrably incorrect.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/Public_hearing... (international court of justice)
Not that they aren't laughable and shouldn't go away. Likewise the black robes IMHOP.
The point is... we likely are going to be stuck with bad cultural remnants for a long long time which is why it is so important to get it right the first time. This ruling is a bad deal but Google certainly has the resources to fight further and I bet they do. Hopefully they scrap Java in the end.
Software Patents are a great sell for developers with an inflated sense of self-importance (and their bosses) thinking that everything they created is wonderful and unique.
Lawyers just played on that, and of course, they get their share of it
> "Under the Act, society is free to exploit facts, ideas, processes, or methods of operation in a copyrighted work. To protect processes or methods of operation, a creator must look to patent laws."
> It's there in black and white that methods of operation are not protected by copyright. So what is Oracle thinking?
Seems pretty clear to me!