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I had the opportunity once to talk to an IP lawyer for Oracle and brought this up. I specifically brought up the S3 compatibility of their cloud storage among o
by thedevelopnik 6y ago
I had the opportunity once to talk to an IP lawyer for Oracle and brought this up. I specifically brought up the S3 compatibility of their cloud storage among other instances.
His reply was “without admitting anything specific, how do you know we haven’t purchased private licenses for anything you just mentioned?”
- throwaway3699 6y agoIt's still silly. Imagine if you needed to purchase a license for the shape of plug that fits inside a standard plug socket - to build any appliance.
- bobmalone123 6y agoImagine if you had to pay a software developer 300K a year to design that API that you think it’s cool to steal.
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- throwaway3699 6y agoSomeone had to design plug sockets too.
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- thedevelopnik 6y agoOh yeah he and I still fundamentally disagreed, but it gave me some insight into Oracle’s position.
- rodgerd 6y agoPlenty of good, cheap DACs built in China (e.g. Topping) have an HDMI-shaped plug (IIS) that supports PCM-over-not-HDMI which happens to be compatible with HDMI sources, but don't dare mention HDMI because they don't want to pull in an interlocking, price-gouging nonsense from the US entertainment industry. So you don't quite need a license for the shape of the plug, but you do need to pretend it's not something that it is.
- kaba0 6y agoIsn’t S3 under the Apache license?