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That's literally the next sentence that you intentionally omitted. And I've seen plenty of people paint Oracle as some evil boogeyman like this is some good vs

That's literally the next sentence that you intentionally omitted. And I've seen plenty of people paint Oracle as some evil boogeyman like this is some good vs evil struggle. Oracle wasn't trying to make Bad Things happen. They were seeking damages from a damaging situation, and if bad things had happened... I'd blame the patent trolls and judges that enable them. Their insanity continues regardless of the verdict after all, and there are plenty of otherwise reasonable takes ruined by their existence.

mindcrime 6y ago
Oracle wasn't trying to make Bad Things happen. I didn't say they were. They were seeking damages from a damaging situation, and if bad things had happened... I'd blame the patent trolls and judges that enable them. The issue at hand is about copyright not patents. And note that I'm not saying that nothing bad can, or will, ever happen again. I'm just saying that the consequences of this decision coming down the other way would have been Very Bad, which makes the current decision a Very Good Thing in general.
- BoorishBears 6y ago
  I didn't say you said that. Please read the comment again, slowly. You're saying "I've only seen people say we avoided very bad thing" I'm saying that's simply not the case, plenty of people are attaching some sort of morality to this. Edit: Case in point, the other reply to the comment is now one of those people. And patent trolls and their sympathetic judges are 100% the same people who would have frenzy fed here, many of then (most?) are also copyright trolls in the context of software. In case you didn't know.
kps 6y ago
> I've seen plenty of people paint Oracle as some evil boogeyman “Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower.”
- BoorishBears 6y ago
  That's exactly it, except here I would say someone stuck their hand in the lawnmower and got away with it. But people were upset the lawnmower tried to take the hand at all
dkjaudyeqooe 6y ago
Are you familiar with Oracle's business practices? They are indeed evil. Google started out with the stated intent to not be evil but now they're allowing that possibly and are making good progress.

mindcrime 6y ago

Oracle wasn't trying to make Bad Things happen. I didn't say they were. They were seeking damages from a damaging situation, and if bad things had happened... I'd blame the patent trolls and judges that enable them. The issue at hand is about copyright not patents. And note that I'm not saying that nothing bad can, or will, ever happen again. I'm just saying that the consequences of this decision coming down the other way would have been Very Bad, which makes the current decision a Very Good Thing in general.

BoorishBears 6y ago
I didn't say you said that. Please read the comment again, slowly. You're saying "I've only seen people say we avoided very bad thing" I'm saying that's simply not the case, plenty of people are attaching some sort of morality to this. Edit: Case in point, the other reply to the comment is now one of those people. And patent trolls and their sympathetic judges are 100% the same people who would have frenzy fed here, many of then (most?) are also copyright trolls in the context of software. In case you didn't know.

kps 6y ago

> I've seen plenty of people paint Oracle as some evil boogeyman “Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower.”

BoorishBears 6y ago
That's exactly it, except here I would say someone stuck their hand in the lawnmower and got away with it. But people were upset the lawnmower tried to take the hand at all

dkjaudyeqooe 6y ago

Are you familiar with Oracle's business practices? They are indeed evil. Google started out with the stated intent to not be evil but now they're allowing that possibly and are making good progress.