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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has legally weighed in on the ongoing software copyright dispute between Google and Oracle, and its message is clear: APIs cannot be copyrighted.
"Dear Supreme Court,
We are smart. The appellate court is dumb.
Please don't be dumb.
Sincerely,
The people who made computers and stuff."
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Stupid-ass decision. It's like copyrighting the shape of hex wrenches. APIs are tool shapes, not the tools themselves. ARGH! Another analogy is the alphabet. The API is the alphabet, a particular implementation of an API is like a particular font. The font is copyrightable, but not the alphabet.
Stupid idiotic courts.
That's why I *always* vote not to retain judges on each voting cycle. Not that it makes a difference. But it makes me feel better.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Christopher Shields wrote: APIs cannot be copyrighted
I agree. But maybe it should be a bit more detailed answer.
My point is that an API is basically an idea and ideas (thank goodness) cannot be copyrighted or patented.
The wheel is a great idea. So is streaming video over the Internet. Both are ideas and should not be copyrighted or patented.
Another terrible one was "one-click purchase" which amazon tried to patent. What?
It's an interesting debate.
Keep it open, so us little people can still build innovative things without wondering if a patent troll will stomp us into the ground.
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Barack Obama has a clear message for the Federal Communications Commission: Keep the Internet free and save net neutrality — with no compromises.
"That's it. Republicans took the Senate. I'm a lame duck...no more reason to play nice. Now IMMA DO WHAT I WANT."
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Best part is when Obama said, "there are no toll roads on the Information Super Highway..."
Yes, he really said that. I'm cringing. Cringing...
That pretty much sets technology back to 1995. No one has called the Internet that since then, when Al Gore invented it. 
Oh, go ahead and laugh.
You can listen to him say the sentence (and cringe) at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uKcjQPVwfDk[^]
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We can joke all we want, but I'm glad he's for it keep it open. Gotta give him props for that.
Jeremy Falcon
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We need to wait and see what the details of the proposed policies are before cheering.
It's normal in American politics for politicians to promote in empty words so many wonderful things that people agree with and then write toxic details into the law that everyone hates.
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So — I decided to write a little Rust and, because everyone in my world seems swoony over it, Go. Because C/C++ is so last century?
Oh wait, it's a work of fiction, "Modern Javascript is becoming delightful in its own way."
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Somehow the name "Rust" indicates decay or at least entropy. Not appealing. But I say that without having even scanned the language schema...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Elon Musk is talking with satellite industry executives about creating smaller, less-expensive satellites "that can deliver Internet access across the globe," according to a Wall Street Journal article today. Seems like an odd accessory for a Tesla. Is it part of the "Rally/Track" option?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: creating smaller, less-expensive satellites
I thought of this a couple of weeks ago. This way I can put my own satellite up with a small backyard-launched rocket and the satellite doesn't need so much power to keep it aloft. I think maybe Musk is copying my notes off of Google Drive. 
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It seems as though everyone in tech today is infatuated with the full-stack developer. "It teeters and it totters, but you don't give up"
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Very true Kent. It is to be sad or happy.. Confused..
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Kent Sharkey wrote: full-stack developer
Is that a NSFW term?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I worked with a full-stack developer once. She was very talented. She always said she enjoyed night work best of all.
Make what you will of that!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The technical implausibility and unintended consequences of digital locks are big problems for digital-lock makers. Locks only irritate the honest people
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DRM is nonsense.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The giants of the connected world are finally waking up to one of the biggest obstacles in their stated missions of connecting billions more people to the internet: The language barrier. Just repeat the question a little louder. That always helps.
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I know. You think you were hired to write code. In fact, your entire interview process centered around how well you could write code. And I’m sure you do it really well. I thought it was in the job description?
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I feel some confusion between job (as assignment) and goal here...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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We are what Vroomfondel refers to as "Other Professional Thinking Persons".
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Not an unreasonable premise, but it comes off as smug (and even slightly bitchy), so it will alienate the people it needs to speak to the most.
A little self-effacement would help, rather than highly and mightily telling people they're doing stuff wrong, but the writer obviously didn't want to do that.
[edit] I was unaware that it was written by a woman, because I know several males who would write it in exactly the same way.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The article seems good at first sight, but after reading it I just can't see it working even in a "2-men-shop" not to mention lager companies. Is it really dev's job to ensure (aka test) that app runs on wide range of environments? Isn't it what QA is for? Is it really dev's job to improve UI and measure the change? How about designers and UX specialists? How about A/B testing?
So we can fire whole QA team and save on designers, UX and possibly others because it's dev's job to write perfectly running code with intuitive user interface without any flows, right?
Good luck with that approach 
--
"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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Quote: lager companies
I want to work for one of those! 
Come to think of it, it would be just like the 80's all over again
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