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> started pulling in man pages with the wrong set of copyright headers And how has the wrong set of copyright headers ended up on said pages?
Applying Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
My sense is this originates from a few perceptions of Larry Ellison and Oracle: (1) Oracle does give a whip about Open Source software. (2) Oracle charges so much for their primary RDBMS technology that it would only be natural for them to undermine MySql as an open source database technology (a view I, personally, share despite evidence to the contrary). (3) As a tech, in a past life, I've had to support Java on the client side for some really poorly written Java apps. Aside from the experience being utterly awful due to this horrible app, I have little trust for a company that installs toolbars alongside critical patches and then defends the practice when called out.
I'm finding my view of Oracle is so negative (maybe I've been supporting Oracle software for way too long?) that I'm not going to be fully convinced this was a bug until the "wrong set of copyright headers" is fixed. That's pretty sad since it makes little sense that Oracle would relicense just the man pages in some sort of conspiracy to squeeze a dime out of its customers.
Either way, it's always a good reminder of my personal favorite variation of Hanlon's razor: Where there are gaps of understanding, people jump to the worst possible conclusion.
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Applying Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Witty. Now please demonstrate how it looks applied to this case.
I prefer to imagine Larry Ellison wringing his hands saying "Curses! And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids!" Also he's in an abandoned fairground for some reason.
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Witty. Now please demonstrate how it looks applied to this case.
Replace "malice" with "conspiracy to eradicate open-source MySQL" and "stupidity" with "bugs in the packaging code".
What does "the wrong set of copyright headers" do in a vicinity of the packaging pipeline and how it came to exist in the first place. It's easy to throw around flashy one-liners. It's a bit more work to actually try and read into the facts presented.
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Replace "malice" with "conspiracy to eradicate open-source MySQL" and "stupidity" with "bugs in the packaging code".
Good, good, almost there. Now elaborate on "bugs in the packaging code" part. What does "the wrong set of copyright headers" do in a vicinity of the packaging pipeline and how it came to exist in the first place. It's easy to throw around flashy one-liners. It's a bit more work to actually try and read into the facts presented.
Do not be condescending on Hacker News when someone is responding to your question. It's easy to jump to conclusions. It's a bit more to actually try and understand what happened - that is the point of Hanlon's Razor. This may have been intentional, yes. But it may also have been a bug.
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Good, good, almost there. Now elaborate on "bugs in the packaging code" part. What does "the wrong set of copyright headers" do in a vicinity of the packaging pipeline and how it came to exist in the first place. It's easy to throw around flashy one-liners. It's a bit more work to actually try and read into the facts presented.
As has already been stated on this same page, there's a community edition and a commercial edition. They're likely part of the same packaging pipeline. Do not be condescending on Hacker News when someone is responding to your question. It's easy to jump to conclusions. It's a bit more to actually try and understand what happened - that is the point of Hanlon's Razor. This may have been intentional, yes. But it may al…
Do not dispense unsolicited advice on the Internets. That wasn't a reply. It was a highbrow remark that was as generic as it was barely applicable. A proper reply was the sibling comment that pointed at two editions.
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As has already been stated on this same page, there's a community edition and a commercial edition. They're likely part of the same packaging pipeline. Do not be condescending on Hacker News when someone is responding to your question. It's easy to jump to conclusions. It's a bit more to actually try and understand what happened - that is the point of Hanlon's Razor. This may have been intentional, yes. But it may al…
> Do not be condescending on Hacker News when someone is responding to your question. Do not dispense unsolicited advice on the Internets. That wasn't a reply. It was a highbrow remark that was as generic as it was barely applicable. A proper reply was the sibling comment that pointed at two editions.
The nazis did it.
Everyone happy now? :)
I prefer to imagine Larry Ellison wringing his hands saying "Curses! And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids!" Also he's in an abandoned fairground for some reason.
In front of a sign saying "Scott McNealy's Open Source Wonderland"