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If implementing an interface is against copyright, then every Java program is infringing on Oracle's copyright.
No because the Java license lets you do that.
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> At least that's what their lawyer claims. Of course he would, that's his job. How does Android "directly hurt" Oracle?
I can tell you what the lawyers for Oracle claim. I'm not going to do the research to see if their claims are true, though, you'll have to do that. 1) Oracle claims that they had contracts for a lot of "Java in TV" (presumably J2ME) with manufacturers, who later switched to Android. 2) Oracle claims that they had contracts with auto companies for Java in cars, dashboards and such, and those later switched to Android.…
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If you don't like maven, you're going to need a padded cell when you move to nuget.
Paket makes dependencies a bit more reasonable, though https://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/ But I agree, even Yarn/npm is better than the current state of dependencies for F#
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PostgresQL is an RDBMS and has increasingly been demonstrated as able to hold it's own against closed source rivals. I think the OPs tossing NOSQL in there was poor form, and I think "SQL engines" could be replaced with DBAs. The world still needs RDBMS and we desperately need people who understand them from an engineering perspective. But as an average app developer, I can scale my product to serve hundreds of thous…
What can Oracle do that Postgres can't, then? Can Oracle function with less RAM than Postgres?
Analytics operating closely on the data (CUBE, etc) Partitioning (PostgreSQL has this now, but it is not as flexible) Transparent compression Security features Crypto features XML extensions (big in Enterprise)