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

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