Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight
If the future of computer programming is important to you, read the briefing calling for cert in this case.
A timeline and references can be found at <a href="http://www.project-disco.org/oracle-v-google-case/" rel="nofollow">http://www.project-disco.org/oracle-v-google-case/</a> .<p>For a programmer, the weight of the evidence against copyright for APIs is conclusive as presented in the briefing.  Unfortunately, there are no programmers on the Supreme Court; while Judge Alsop did learn Java Programming so he could understand the issues,the Circuit Judges who reviewed Alsop's decision were not so dedicated.