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Their main product copied APIs and even the SQL language itself. This is a really interesting point. Presumably IBM owns the copyright on SQL ("SEQUEL"); is th

Their main product copied APIs and even the SQL language itself. This is a really interesting point. Presumably IBM owns the copyright on SQL ("SEQUEL"); is there anything that prevents them from suing Oracle (and everyone else) for royalties?

pulse7 8y ago
In this case Oracle should hand over 90% of all profits since 1979 to IBM...
- rbanffy 8y ago
  That'd be fun, wouldn't it? Oracle probably has a good couple parents that are absolutely essential to IBM or that would have already happened. MAD works.