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1. Simon Phipps (webmink@meshed.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 06:59:33 JST Simon Phipps

   • sjvn

   @sjvn
   She was the one that took my deposition for that trial. No words.

   • sjvn (sjvn@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 06:59:30 JST sjvn

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     • Matt "msw" Wilson

     @msw @webmink Oh! Bionic! I hadn't thought about that in ages. I can't find my story about it, but Linus, back in the day, didn't think it was a big deal, and I'm inclined to agree with him. https://web.archive.org/web/20160113121530/http://www.itworld.com/article/2744480/open-source-tools/android--sued-by-microsoft--not-by-linux.html

   • Matt "msw" Wilson (msw@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 06:59:31 JST Matt "msw" Wilson

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     • sjvn

     @webmink @sjvn to me things can be true at the same time:

     1) Google policy and practice likely harm copyleft (a better example may be https://lwn.net/Articles/434318/)

     2) Copyright maximalism is bad.

     3) Fair use provisions necessary to implement a compatible API may serve the public.

     4) If you were on Oracle's side in that case, it was the wrong side of history.

   • Matt "msw" Wilson (msw@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 06:59:32 JST Matt "msw" Wilson

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     • sjvn

     @webmink @sjvn I have some words. 🤬

   • Matt "msw" Wilson (msw@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 07:00:08 JST Matt "msw" Wilson

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     • sjvn

     @sjvn @webmink I (personally) also think that it isn't a big deal.

     If Software Freedom advocates make a big deal of it, it may become more difficult to implement #FOSS versions of proprietary software that interoperates with it and/or allows knowledge reuse.

     But it reinforces the belief in my mind that reducing the amount of copyleft software in Android was a goal...