Comment Re:Fucking Lawyers (Score 0) 181
and now retroactively Oracle can claim copyright on it?
No, there's no retroactive claim necessary under the Berne Convention - everything anybody ever writes is automatically copyrighted. All expression is by default subsumed by the State under that treaty (so cut the guys going apeshit over TPP some slack).
You wanted the government controlling every aspect of human interaction, you got it. Now the US software industry can proceed to burn in flames, the way the democracy wants (hence the term democracide).
If there's a silver lining, it's that this will breed further contempt for the law among the educated. As they flee its jurisdiction.