Why Are Republicans Upset About Corporate Free Speech All of a Sudden?
But in reality, if you look at the briefs in this case, a really broad ideological array of groups were on Google’s side, including like the R Street Institute, like pro market pro competition groups, because they said, look, you know, code is not the same thing as a work of literature or a movie or some unique product of art. Right. Like code is something that is super collaborative, that is used to build new kinds of programs and interfaces and operating systems. And we have to let different tech companies build on each other’s code if we want to maintain robust competition in this marketplace. The way that Google used Oracle’s code was totally transformative. It’s not as if Google just stole this really important and unique product from Oracle Java and said, OK, it’s ours now.
