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____/ Homer on Thursday 23 Jun 2011 10:31 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> ____/ RonB on Thursday 23 Jun 2011 09:10 : \____
>>> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:36:58 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>>>> There's also Oracle...
>>>
>>> We try to forget that.
>>
>> They do too... "Unbreakable" is hardly heard from anymore.
>
> And they just dumped OpenOffice onto the Apache Foundation, dumped
> support for Itanium hardware, and lost nearly all their "IP" claims
> against Android (and will likely lose the rest), in an attempt to
> monopolise Java.
>
> Makes you wonder why they bothered buying Sun in the first place?
>
> So what does that leave them?
>
> A Free Software database that competes with their own over-priced,
> archaic, proprietary one.
>
> In a word, LOL.
Ellison is a good friend of Jobs and they all recently grouped together under CPTN
(treasure trove of Novell's orphaned patents). Maybe the Big Vendors just
collude to keep commodity away. IBM sure colluded with Oracle regarding OOo->Apache.
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~~ Best of wishes
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