A win for Open Source

[Glaucus]

Actually, it's a win for all software developers (except Orcale): Google wins crucial API ruling, Oracle's case decimated

Oracle's legal battle to break itself off a chunk of the smartphone market by attacking Android looks dead in the water today, after a federal judge who recently finished presiding over the six-week Oracle v. Google trial ruled that the structure of the Java APIs that Oracle was trying to assert can't be copyrighted at all.

I'm not too surprised. A European court made a similar judgment a month or so ago, so it seems pretty clear that APIs are fair game for everyone. And that's a good thing.