Reply to post: Re: It's Goliath vs. Goliath

Google lashes out at DoJ, Oracle as it asks US Supremes to sniff Java suit one last time

Paul Crawford Silver badge

Re: It's Goliath vs. Goliath

True, and on that hand I don't really care which screws which one.

But as already pointed out the Oracle win would set a very disturbing precedent to allow any company to block 3rd party products simply by claiming copyright violation on the API that is necessary to make something work.

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