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CoffeeScript is something that I’ve watched for a very long time and my first attempt at using it in a project was early in its development and while I wanted to commit patches, reading some of the conversation around the purpose and overall goals made me realize that I simply see JavaScript differently than the author (Jeremy Ashkenas, whom I do not know but would LOVE to have a drink with (alcoholic drink or otherwise) and pick his brain, if anyone knows him and would kindly introduce us at… [read post]

This is my fourth post since Friday's Federal Circuit ruling that held 7,000 lines of concededly highly-creative Java API declaring code copyrightable. [read post]

"1.4 Google-internal document of March 6, 2008"In an internal Google document rehearsing the 'Mobile + Android' narrative, Google anticipated that it would be asked whether 'Android's Dalvik VM violate[s] Java's IP restrictions"” and had no answer to that question. [read post]