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> Sun wanted Google to use Java. [...] Oracle doesn't. By your reasoning, IBM could spin-off a division with intellectual property rights to SQL, sell it to Go

> Sun wanted Google to use Java. [...] Oracle doesn't. By your reasoning, IBM could spin-off a division with intellectual property rights to SQL, sell it to Google for 10B, who could then claim "we never agreed SQL should be free!" and sue Oracle into bankruptcy

deanCommie 7y ago
Maybe they should! :D
cmiles74 7y ago
Isn't that how the whole SCO vs. Linux lawsuits worked? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes