{"id":9669,"date":"2013-03-30T23:50:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T04:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9669"},"modified":"2013-03-30T23:50:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T04:50:56","slug":"developer-freedom-at-stake-as-oracle-clings-to-java-api-copyrights-in-google-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9669","title":{"rendered":"Developer Freedom At Stake As Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights In Google Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Oracle lost in their attempt to protect their position using patents. They lost in their attempt to claim Google copied anything but a few lines of code. If they succeed in claiming you need their permission to use the Java APIs that they pushed as a community standard, software developers and innovation will be the losers. Learning the Java language is relatively simple, but mastering its APIs is a major investment you make as a Java developer. What Android did for Java developers is to allow them to make use of their individual career and professional investment to engage in a mobile marketplace that Sun failed to properly engage in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/03\/30\/developers-should-care-about-oracles-upcoming-appeal-of-the-google-lawsuit\/\">Developer Freedom At Stake As Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights In Google Fight | TechCrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle lost in their attempt to protect their position using patents. They lost in their attempt to claim Google copied anything but a few lines of code. If they succeed in claiming you need their permission to use the Java &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9669\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[173,439,345,875],"class_list":["post-9669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-api","tag-copyright","tag-java","tag-litigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}