Reply to post: Re: Why not let idiotic orgs let their APIs slide into obscurity via failing to license freely?

IBM, Microsoft, a medley of others sing support for Google against Oracle in Supremes' Java API copyright case

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Re: Why not let idiotic orgs let their APIs slide into obscurity via failing to license freely?

Under such a scenario the world as we know it would evaporate in a cloud of sueballs.

Meanwhile, every court in the nation has to revert to a paper based system with Law Clerks and Interns doing Manual Lookup of all legal citations. Every business would be forced back to manual processing of transactions and there wouldn't be enough people with low level clerking skills available to handle all the paperwork. Credit cards? Fugedabout it! Cash or No Sale.

By the third day of the next Supreme Court Session t[if not before] he "Nine" would realize that they stepped on a sensitive portion of the anatomy with Golf Cleats.

IT departments would be furloughing most of their staffs, and until the sueballs were resolved those people would be advised to "learn double entry bookkeeping".

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