Oracle attorney says Google’s court victory might kill the GPL (ars technica)

Ars technica is carrying an editorial from Oracle's attorney in its fight with Google; it would seem that this ruling is the end of the world. "It is hard to see how GPL can survive such a result. In fact, it is hard to see how ownership of a copy of any software protected by copyright can survive this result. Software businesses now must accelerate their move to the cloud where everything can be controlled as a service rather than software. Consumers can expect to find decreasing options to own anything for themselves, decreasing options to control their data, decreasing options to protect their privacy."

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