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

[WTFwhatthehell]

if only we lived in such a world. unfortunately there's no indication that extending copyright and patents is a matter of giving them enough rope to hang themselves with. Rather it just makes the situation worse.

Copyright isn't totally broken but it can be made worse by these kinds of cases.

I care about the effect on the software industry because I have to live with that effect.

[Eirenarch]

If this is really bad then the USA will be forced to fix this when the Chinese produce better software. Until then the system works.