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Oracle did something similar with the network protocol of its database driver. Not to prevent copying, but to prevent others from writing their own drivers: htt
by Kristine1975 11y ago
Oracle did something similar with the network protocol of its database driver. Not to prevent copying, but to prevent others from writing their own drivers: http://dacut.blogspot.de/2008/03/oracle-poetry.html http://dacut.blogspot.de/2008/03/oracle-poetry.html
- tempVariable 11y agoOK, is this for real ? Does everyone have to use the Oracle OCI library under the hood ?
- Natsu 11y agoDefinitely real. I WTF'd the first time I read that poem out of a packet capture.
- GlitchMr 11y agoI doubt that it would work in practice. Sega tried similar thing (requiring games on Sega Genesis to print "PRODUCED BY OR UNDER LICENSE FROM SEGA ENTERPRISES LTD.") to block interoperability, and they lost a case against Accolade.
- JoshTriplett 11y agoLEGO tried to do the same thing with their Mindstorms SDK.