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Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 13, 2012 @02:28PM
from the makes-perfect-sense-minus-the-sense dept.

pcritter writes "With the Oracle v. Google trial date set for next Monday, the Judge has asked Google and Oracle to take a position on whether a programming language is copyrightable. This presumably relates to whether Google violated copyright by using a variant of the Java language and its APIs in the Android framework. Oracle, who thinks it can be, has used J.R.R. Tolkein's Elvish language as an examples (PDF) of a language that can be copyrighted. Google disagrees (PDF)."

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Re:My ass (Score:5, Funny)

by idontgno (624372) writes: on Friday April 13, 2012 @02:50PM (#39677615) Journal

I suspect engraving "Elbereth" [steelypips.org] on the floor wouldn't prevent Oracle from attacking me. More's the shame.

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Re:My ass (Score:5, Funny)

by interval1066 (668936) writes: on Friday April 13, 2012 @03:26PM (#39678069) Homepage Journal

No, but a circle of protection engraved with Postgresql specific charms might.

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Re:Haven't we seen this? (Score:5, Funny)

by pak9rabid (1011935) writes: on Friday April 13, 2012 @04:36PM (#39679025)

Right....they called it C#.

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Re:Sure. (Score:4, Funny)

by Chrisq (894406) writes: on Friday April 13, 2012 @06:29PM (#39680383)

Sad that in 2012 people are still confused by this.
Well if the Mayans were right they won't be in 2013

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