Having read the ruling, and at least acknowledged the judge's reasoning...
Does it strike anyone else here as...I don't know, odd...that a court ruling of potentially huge influence came about due to a squabble over images on postcards and tea boxes?
Postcards and tea boxes.
What the hell kind of government and civilization have we settled on that allows such a petty dispute to potentially hose an entire industry?
Any code with such obscure coupling would be refactored without a second thought if possible.
This isn't a coupling between those two components; it's a common dependency with a bug that was exposed by one of the components. Once the bug in the dependency is fixed, anybody relying on the incorrect behavior is hosed.
Does it strike anyone else here as...I don't know, odd...that a court ruling of potentially huge influence came about due to a squabble over images on postcards and tea boxes?
Postcards and tea boxes.
What the hell kind of government and civilization have we settled on that allows such a petty dispute to potentially hose an entire industry?
Any code with such obscure coupling would be refactored without a second thought if possible.