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The entire software industry should be boycotting Oracle over this case. If they win it will ruin software development in the US.
by snarfy 10y ago
The entire software industry should be boycotting Oracle over this case. If they win it will ruin software development in the US.
- TheRealDunkirk 10y agoExcept that Oracle has become so successful because they've captured the largest customer(s) of all: the US federal government.
- gohbgl 10y agoWell isn't that a coincidence. Extracting money through state granted limited monopoly rights and lobbying for big government contracts at the same time. Oracle is really living the crony capitalist dream.
- ddebernardy 10y agoOne coyld also argue the opposite: if Oracle wins, lawyers will start burning the software industry to the ground to an extent such that US lawmakers will be forced to reform copyright and patent laws.