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Accidental Tech Podcast

495: Five Points for Smell

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.4 β€’ 2.4K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 132 minutes

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0:00.0

I know I'm going to end up disappointed by the end of the night, but sitting here now where ignorance is lists

0:04.8

I am so excited for the after show you've been on fire with the list puns recently

0:09.6

They've been well, I don't know if if fire is joy that I'm in car tuning car gym you've been on this mud waterfall

0:19.4

All right, so Rob sayer writes Casey mentioned the Oracle Android Java case in the S3 API

0:25.7

Conversation so to back up half step we were talking about is it okay to copy a developer another parties API is that cool

0:31.7

Is that not cool and I said oh well, you know there's a big lawsuit between Oracle and you know Android who had basically copied but

0:38.2

Reimplemented the Java APIs or at least that's my vague understanding of it

0:41.4

So I'm going to rob continues the supreme court said that this was fair use

0:44.7

I've always found this case funny because Oracle in fact copies the S3 API

0:48.8

So here was Oracle took Google and Android and so on to court saying oh you copied our stuff and then Oracle turned right around and said

0:56.3

Oh, you know we're gonna copy the S3 API. That sounds great. Thank you. I'm sure what Oracle would say is that

1:00.9

Well APIs are not all the same. We're talking about and you know programming interface or local code on the machine and this is a network

1:08.0

Protocol HTTP requests for certain paths and parameters and so on and that's totally different

1:13.3

These days we think of them all as APIs, but there is a case three made that if there was to be some kind of law

1:20.4

Coming out of that

1:22.0

Java Oracle thing might not apply to network APIs

1:25.7

that's fair point and

1:28.5

With regard to

1:30.5

Marcos

1:31.7

Tehr which I thought was was justified at the time about Apple in the hypothetical Apple car

1:37.4

They wouldn't want to put any like branding on the tires. They would want like a completely flat tire

1:42.1

You didn't go so far as to say white walls, but he's never know if Johnny is still if Johnny is still contracting

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