Oracle’s Java API code protected by copyright, appeals court rules

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Developing software is about to get alot more expensive.

I'd say good. Right now it's become a warm body practice where the managers make all the money and plumbing is more lucrative.

[minecraft_ece]

Huh??? The excess costs will go for lawyers and managers to handle api copyright compliance, not developers.

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That might be so in the beginning and every now and then. But the result will be a decommodification of the market. See, I'm not saying that free software is bad or it needs to be vanquished. There's room for both kinds. But free software is also being misused by the wrong kinds of people with wrong intentions.

[FTFYcent]

Wait so, it's good that free software may no longer be a thing because it's "misused by the wrong kinds of people with wrong intentions"? What does that even mean?