They copied literally a handful of lines of code that an intern could have writt...

hcknwscommenter · on March 27, 2018

But they didn't just write their own APIs. They copied them. Thousands of them.

cromwellian · on March 28, 2018

Copying an API is what software developers call "implementing an API"

When you create your own USB cable, or electric plug, you aren't copying the API specs, you're implementing them.

ben509 · on March 27, 2018

Once they admit to copying some of it, it throws the whole clean room process into doubt. I think the courts are working on the "where there's smoke there's fire" principle.