Oracle vs. Google, and the end of programming as we know it

I thought we were done with Oracle’s frantic attempts to monetize its failed Sun purchase by suing profits out of Google’s use of Java in Android. I was wrong. In 2015, the Supreme Court upheld an idiotic decision by a U.S. Court of Appeals that Java’s application programming interface (API) was subject to copyright. So here we go again.
In the first go-round between Oracle and Google, in 2012, a clueless jury found that Google had infringed Oracle’s copyright by copying