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“Stop reverse engineering our code”

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Re: “Stop reverse engineering our code”

#281

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"We expect to see profit driven to zero in a competitive market, and that is what we saw in Standard Oil's pricing." We don't see that in any of the information you provided. You gave a graph of oil prices, not of Standard Oil's profits.

I was responding specifically to the latter portion of the quote excerpted by the grandparent post, which indicated minimal and zero profits for Standard Oil in areas with competition, in alignment with economic theory which indicates economic profit tends toward zero with increased competition.

You're choosing to laser focus in on a specific aspect of the story and cut the bigger picture out of the frame in a very telling way.

Surely you've considered why Standard Oil's decision to do this was found to be anticompetitive, have you not?

Re: “Stop reverse engineering our code”

#285

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was responding specifically to the latter portion of the quote excerpted by the grandparent post, which indicated minimal and zero profits for Standard Oil in areas with competition, in alignment with economic theory which indicates economic profit tends toward zero with increased competition.

You're choosing to laser focus in on a specific aspect of the story and cut the bigger picture out of the frame in a very telling way. Surely you've considered why Standard Oil's decision to do this was found to be anticompetitive, have you not?

I responded to multiple points in the post. You questioned a specific excerpt. I responded regarding that specific excerpt. You are now accusing me of laser focus.

This thread has all the markings of one that becomes net negative for all involved and those reading. I'll leave it with this:

I am focusing on the outcome to the consumer of the behavior in question, not on the outcome to competitors of the behavior.

Re: “Stop reverse engineering our code”

#287

I don't understand why everybody is mad about this post, oracle has proprietary software that is bound with a license. In that sense I don't see why people do not moan about having to pay a rent because your tenancy contract that you signed says so... Long story short, its a right of a SOFTWARE mostly company to protect its software, open source is not always the solution and reverse engineering something, consumes w…

> open source is not always the solution

Perhaps, but this article appears to be very strong evidence to the contrary.

Re: “Stop reverse engineering our code”

#288

Is this woman aware that static analysis is a non-negotiable requirement for filing your 510(k) if you do anything vaguely medical the FDA has to look at? Not that I would willingly choose Oracle for medical device applications, but the cognitive dissonance here is amusing. Pax vobsicum indeed.

They do use static analysis. However, they do not let third parties analyze their source code. Which shows even more hubris, because they're all but saying, "only we're smart enough to analyze our code."

Re: “Stop reverse engineering our code”

#289
post #97

Seems like the original blog post was deleted, here is the archive - https://web.archive.org/web/20150811052336/https://blogs.ora...

Thanks for the mirror!

Thank you for using the word, "mirror" so that I could find it quickly.
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