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Actually we had nosql databases for far more than we have had SQL databases (by definition, for one). They were quite popular in the seventies / early eighties.
by batista 15y ago
Actually we had nosql databases for far more than we have had SQL databases (by definition, for one). They were quite popular in the seventies / early eighties. So, those too could have lots of old patents and prior art.
- jerf 15y agoOld, expired patents, so that wouldn't be a stopper.
- batista 15y agoPatents, maybe. Copyright? Oracle's case is all about copyright, no?
- jerf 15y agoCopyright as it stands today would only be a stopper if you tried to grab the actual implementations from that era, which wouldn't even run without serious work. Reimplementations would be clear. Copyright even as Oracle is grabbing at it would only be an issue if you cloned those old APIs, which is probably also not what would happen, as the APIs wouldn't translate to anything today either.