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Oracle Sues Google For Patent And Copyright Infringement

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Re: Oracle Sues Google For Patent And Copyright Infringement

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Post by Niten » Fri, Aug 13, 2010, 1:17 AM UTC

abhisec wrote: post #2

This is really awful. Only proves that money drives oracle and not ethics and community. Wonder what's in store for mysql.

It's worse than that, it proves that short-term money drives Oracle. What kind of effect do they think this behavior will have on long-term Java vs. .NET/CLR platform adoption?

Re: Oracle Sues Google For Patent And Copyright Infringement

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Post by abhisec » Fri, Aug 13, 2010, 1:19 AM UTC

I think we can probably expect this from Oracle. I think next on the chopping block would be GWT and then companies who use J2EE.

Re: Oracle Sues Google For Patent And Copyright Infringement

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Post by dannydulai » Fri, Aug 13, 2010, 1:35 AM UTC

and people thought Java was a safer platform than .NET/Mono !

Re: Oracle Sues Google For Patent And Copyright Infringement

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Post by tzs » Fri, Aug 13, 2010, 8:13 AM UTC

abhisec wrote: post #2

This is really awful. Only proves that money drives oracle and not ethics and community. Wonder what's in store for mysql.

Actually, I wouldn't mind a good threat against MySQL--it would make it easier to convince them at work to consider switching to PostgreSQL.

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