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		tyingq on Jan 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Taking over a Dead IoT Company Google vs Oracle seems to say that offering up a compatible api with different internals is legal. Exploiting the signs seems risky though.

hinkley on Jan 10, 2023 [–]

Fujitsu vs IBM also says you can make compatible hardware and release it as well. And of course they lost other, similar cases during the PC Clone era.

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