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| Authored by: Nivag on Monday, June 25 2012 @ 02:23 AM EDT |
Give PostgreSQL a try, if appropriate, - Oracle hates, Hates, HATES PostgreSQL.
PostgreSQL 9.2beta2 is out and people started to convert from Oracle to
PostgreSQL back in PostgreSQL version 8 days.
When Oracle took over SUN, they disconnected the servers SUN had allowed
PostgreSQL developers to use for testing, _WITHOUT_ any prior warning.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 25 2012 @ 08:55 AM EDT |
"DBMS software" ?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 25 2012 @ 10:59 AM EDT |
"The average audience would never even see the comments, actually. I
suppose Oracle would argue the "average audience" would be
developers."
Technically, the average audience *has* to be developers (or would-be
developers), since regular users just use the compiled bytecode and will never
see any of the source.
Sourcecode comments are, IMO, one of the only truly copyrightable things in
code... if someone reproduced something similar (but not identical) to my code,
but included all my comments verbatim, I'd definitely feel infringed.
That said, Oracle is barking up the wrong tree. It's barking pretty loudly, but
the de minimis and other considerations appear to weigh very heavily against it.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 25 2012 @ 02:24 PM EDT |
Let me get this straight: Oracle wants damages
because Google copied the comments in a
file?!? So If I say -- make a comment -- that "Oracle is
out of its mind if the hope to collect because Google
copied this quote" I can sue Oracle for copying my
quote?!? If that doesn't take the cake!!! More likely the
comment Google "copied" said something like
"This file is needed to run XYZ, and the results should
be in the range A-Z. The end of life as we know it is
near when we can be sued for coping a quote. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 26 2012 @ 05:48 PM EDT |
| This is a case of the events overcoming the premise. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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