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Oracle can't have it both ways

Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 04:49 PM EDT

Oracle wants Google to be bound by the opinion of an engineer (Lindholm) but
doesn't want Sun to be bound by the word of its Chief Executive Officer
(Schwartz).

If I were on the jury I would find that really hard to swallow.

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Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.

"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Oracle can't have it both ways - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 04:51 PM EDT
- Oracle can't have it both ways - Authored by: nuthead on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 11:56 AM EDT
Hard to swallow - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 05:00 PM EDT
- I also wonder - Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 05:37 PM EDT
Oracle can't have it both ways - Authored by: PJ on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 06:54 PM EDT
Oracle can't have it both ways - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 07:44 PM EDT
- Oracle can't have it both ways - Authored by: jjs on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 08:54 PM EDT
- Oracle can't have it both ways - Authored by: jvillain on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 09:08 PM EDT
- Oracle can't have it both ways - Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 09:10 AM EDT
- Oracle can't have it both ways - Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 08:30 PM EDT

I have a bad feeling already...

Authored by: wvhillbilly on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 09:45 PM EDT

Question: If company A open sources code and others use it on that basis, can
Company B buy out Company A, claim the code company A open sourced is
proprietary, and start suing everybody which used the code for infringement?

It looks to me rather like this is what Oracle is doing.

Or am I missing something?

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"It is written." always trumps, "Um, ah, well, I thought..."

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Not quite... - Authored by: naka on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 10:23 PM EDT
Open source is not give away all copyright for free - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 11:56 PM EDT
I have a bad feeling already... - Authored by: jjs on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 06:04 AM EDT
- I have a bad feeling already... - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 07:54 AM EDT

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