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> Should it be legal for me to copy all of the declaring code of my employers product and after writing my own implementation selling it as my own product/work under a different name?

How do you think compatible API implementations have been done until now?

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If they are done by copying someone elses work without permission then by copyright infringement. If done by implementing a standard or through a license etc. then no harm is done.

Do you think that I should be allowed to steal the declaring code of someone elses proprietary solution and pawn of as my own?

So yes, you're saying that Microsoft should sue Wine developers because they stole the API

Why should they? Microsoft has nothing to gain from doing so and reverse engineering interfaces or implementing them under fair use is already allowed.

Wine is also something done explicitly to create compatability, Google made sure Android was not compatible with "regular" Java.

> Why should they? Microsoft has nothing to gain from doing so

Tell us what can benefit Oracle by suing Google.

> Wine is also something done explicitly to create compatability, Google made sure Android was not compatible with "regular" Java.

Android is compatible with Java syntax. And even Java ME, the java developed for mobile platforms, is not compatible with regular java so, what is your point?

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