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US Supremes urged by pretty much everyone in software dev to probe Oracle's 'disastrous' Java API copyright win

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Re: Feature list?

" In current internet based development practises, the cleanroom is bad position to take, since your programmers have access to the information coming from your competitors via internet."

The cleanroom implementations of BIOS were, AIUI, done by reimplementation of a a list of procedure calls without access to the actual source code of what was being implemented. Did Google's developers actually have access to any implementations other than macros defined in include files?

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