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Is there anyone that's not on Oracle's payroll that sides with them on this case?


You aren't going to like the answer to that question, but the appeals court seems to favor Oracle in this case.

They specifically said that Oracle had a strong position, but that they were required to give Google a chance to present full evidence on the fair use issue.


I'm suspicious that Oracle winning would be such a bad thing in the long term. Lawyers would go nuts and start hurting IT companies, for sure. But the bleeding of angry voters who lost their jobs or their millions would then hopefully convince US lawmakers to reform their country's inane IP and patent laws.


Microsoft probably wouldn't mind Oracle winning.


Someone made a great point about the WSL (Linux) layer in Windows in this thread.


They would be the real winners since it would slap both Google and Oracle.




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