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Yeah, but how much have they expended on this legal adventure already? It has been going on for ~6 years now and there's no end in sight, no clear victory for a
by crispyambulance 11y ago
Yeah, but how much have they expended on this legal adventure already? It has been going on for ~6 years now and there's no end in sight, no clear victory for anybody. Doesn't Oracle have better things to do?
- dogma1138 11y agoConsiderably less than 10bln, say even if they spent 100m on legal fees, that's still about 1% of what they would end up earning that's 1:100 return on investment no one would in their right mind would pass on that.
- crispyambulance 11y agoOK, but it is still a roll of the dice and there are costs beyond legal fees. 1:100 is _highly_ unlikely. Lawsuits are a crappy way to make money for a software company.
- nxzero 11y agoCreating a startup to service the CIA is a pretty crap move too; Oracle's launch was largely fueled by creating the database for the CIA in the late 1970s.
- dogma1138 11y agoYou mean like Google(Keyhole/Google Earth) and Facebook which both received funding from the CIA through their investment company In-Q-Tel? https://www.iqt.org/ https://www.iqt.org/
- nxzero 11y agoIf you're going down that path, might as well reference that the research done by Page & Brin that created Google was funded in part by DARPA.
- michaelmrose 11y agoHow about someone with a shred of dignity and decency
- xbmcuser 11y agoThey bought Sun specifically to sue Google don't see them giving that up easily