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I suppose you could also go at it from the angle that it's an anti-competitive practice and no license should be able to restrict you from publishing truthful b
by Asooka 9y ago
I suppose you could also go at it from the angle that it's an anti-competitive practice and no license should be able to restrict you from publishing truthful benchmarks.
- drb91 9y agoYou could knowingly publish incorrect, fictional, or fabricated results. When they sue, you won’t have violated any license. But at least oracle will look terrible.
- saghm 9y agoThen they'll just sue for libel instead
- drb91 9y agoYou can clearly label it ad fictional and explain. Really the point here is to have some portrayal of oracle’s performance that is legal but pisses off Oracle.
- vijayr 9y agoThis sounds like a terrible idea. Maybe if one is a 15 year old kid, sure, for shits and giggles. Why would a researcher do this, damaging their reputation in the process? And what good does it serve anyone?
- drb91 9y agoMostly because it’s a better world than one where Oracle can control the image of their shitty db.
- markbnj 9y agoYeah I don't know, you'd need a lawyer to weigh in on that. Contract law and all the stuff around mutual agreements and consideration (the monetary kind) is pretty fundamental. You can always walk away and use a different database. If they put a set of x conditions on a doc and you sign it and hand over a huge check I'd guess a condition would have to be actually illegal for a court to invalidate just that part of the agreement.