Fwd: [jc] This just in--Supreme court ruled on Java copyrights

[Vincent Mayers]

This may have big implications for all of us

Cheers

Vincent 

@vincentmayers

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From: Cay Horstmann <cay.ho...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [jc] This just in--Supreme court ruled on Java copyrights
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And here is the opinion:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf

On 05/04/2021 17:20, Cay Horstmann via groups.io wrote:
> https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-rules-for-google-in-multibillion-dollar-copyright-battle-with-oracle-11617632233?mod=hp_lead_pos1
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[Werner Keil]

It's certainly better than the other way round because that probably could have destroyed not only the JCP as we know it although its responsibilities are a lot limited after Jakarta EE and other technologies moved to Eclipse Foundation. Therefore what is done here already seems least affected.

Whether Oracle, currently contributing the lion share of Jakarta EE by companies continues to do so after it could not monetize Java the way they hoped to remains to be seen.

Of course interestingly the second largest corporate contribution is currently by Microsoft, a company that was equally eager to protect its copyright and license revenue, but found other ways especially in the Cloud, more succesfully than Oracle. And more importantly Microsoft was also among several companies that backed Google before the court in this.

Werner