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Comment →Supreme Court has released its opinion on GOOGLE LLC v. ORACLE AMERICA, INC. Read it for yourself here.
There are a couple of good threads about it. Here is the more technical one:
GOOD morning, everyone -
Google v Oracle is out. I'm going to walk through the decision for you now. This is a quick first read, without even a skim.
In other words, I will almost certainly miss stuff, some important, in this thread.https://t.co/9p1zEbmqkG
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) April 5, 2021
Here is a more chatty explainer:
OK, re #GoogleVsOracle perhaps worth a quick thread about what APIs actually are and why it matters so much for interoperability in tech that Google won on this
— Pwn All The Things (@pwnallthethings) April 5, 2021
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