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| Authored by: stegu on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 04:58 AM EDT |
Following Oracle's logic around the Lindholm email,
Google could argue that it would be of no use to
stop distributing the files, because they were being
made available over the Internet, so they are out
in the wild anyway. ;-)
The damage is done. Nearly a dozen short lines of
Oracle's super secret source code are forever out
in the open, along with some precious comments of
theirs. I suggest a damages figure for this would
be around $1,000, and Oracle could deserve an
apology from Google. Google also needs to take
better precautions to stop this kind of thing
from happening routinely henceforth, possibly
with code that might be of some actual importance.
In return, Oracle should say "OK, stuff happens"
and get on with their business instead of throwing
an endless and pathetic tantrum in public.
Oh, I forgot: Oracle's business is not going anywhere.
When their business is no longer an ongoing business,
they have made it their business to go where they
have no business going.
If Sun had caught Google doing this, my bet is that
they would have said "Ahem" in a short email, made
Google edit out the superficial and unimportant
copyright infringements and been done with it.
But Oracle wants billions. They must not have a
very strong sense of proportions.
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