The obvious solution is that software is not copyrightable. As a programmer, I know that every piece of software is built on top of someone else's software. That's the way programming works, you use common patterns that have been used by everyone for years. It's pretty obvious that copyright was intended for individual works of art. The idea that software was copyrightable was simply a lawyer's construction in an attempt to create a barrier against other people entering their market.
Frankly, if Oracle is successful in trying to use Java to extort money out of other companies, it will destroy the software industry. Obviously, programmers will start moving to other platforms, but the problem is that no platform is safe.
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