Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored

Post by LoganDark » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 1:19 AM UTC

rtpg wrote: post #9

I appreciate Ryan taking this up, and the updates are interesting. Obviously I'm not paying for the lawyers but it feels like "oh Oracle is trying to add months of delays" feels pretty normal. Only months! If the process just trudges along for a couple of years before reaching a "good" conclusion, still worth doing! And very happy that this is an actual legal proceeding and "try to sign a petition asking Oracle nicel…

Post by sakesun » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 1:25 AM UTC

tw04 wrote: post #70

_7acn wrote: post #64

Just under 30 years ago, when I was starting my IT studies, I had an older colleague who was a great authority to me. When I began learning about RDBMS options, I called him to ask, „What do you think about Oracle?”. He just shouted, „Total crap!!!” and that was enough for me. Since then, to this day, I’ve never touched Oracle.

I don't think it's necessarily fair to say Oracle is total crap. For decades they were more performant and had more features than most anything else on the market. They supported scale-out clustering on linux with Oracle RAC. They were early adopters of high performance NFS moving the NFS stack out of the linux kernel and directly into the database with DirectNFS. They built a clustered filesystem for block-based clu…

Post by SeanAnderson » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 1:44 AM UTC

duxup wrote: post #81

tw04 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it's necessarily fair to say Oracle is total crap. For decades they were more performant and had more features than most anything else on the market. They supported scale-out clustering on linux with Oracle RAC. They were early adopters of high performance NFS moving the NFS stack out of the linux kernel and directly into the database with DirectNFS. They built a clustered filesystem for block-based clu…

Yeah every argument about Oracle being bad is business related, not tech.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 1:52 AM UTC

throwaway2037 wrote: post #80

userbinator wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

which switches the backend from Chromium to Trident, effectively turning it into IE with a modern skin I wish they'd done the opposite instead: same UI, but with a better browser engine.

> better browser engine I'm confused. Are you saying Chromium or Trident browser engine is better? And, in 2025, is there a better engine than Chromium?

Post by krashidov » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 1:55 AM UTC

bsimpson wrote: post #66

krashidov wrote: post #52

I hope this is good marketing for Deno and not just a huge distraction. I feel like Bun is running circles around them right now. I feel like there might even be room for 3 winners (Bun, Deno, Node) but I don't understand the point of this. If Deno wins this battle will that make we want use Deno more?

I think it's a passion project for the founder, who built his career on JS and is offended that Oracle (a company famous for deploying lawyers instead of technological expertise) claims to control it.