Google's Oracle appeal denied

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

9 lines is what was left *after* scrubbing the forensics.
Kinda like the killer that cleans up with bleach and misses a spot.

No one has ever even marginally attempted to deny that Google used the standard Java APIs within their clean-room implementation of a JVM.

The whole process was tainted.
Sounds a lot like the scammers that do a global search and replace on character names and places on a story and republish it under their own name.

Sounds a lot like you are making a comparison between copying the storyline of a book and copying the titles of a series of computer programming APIs. You aren't even the first person to make that mistake in this very thread.

Plagiarism is a lot like pregnancy; it is binary test.
Yes-or-no.
Either they did none of it or they did it.
And the court found that the evidence proved to their satisfaction the entire body of work was based in some measure on Oracle's code.

And the court also found that that (body of work based on another) isn't actually the definition of "plagiarism".

And finally: Your Logical Fallacy of the Day is... Appeal to Ridicule!