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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 24 2012 @ 09:47 AM EDT |
Detailed Guardian
piece about how one petition could
have the potential to
change and open the currently closed landscape of walled
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Authored by: pem on Thursday, May 24 2012 @ 10:26 AM EDT |
A lawyer writes about how Oracle was wronged.
Most of it
is argument from authority. He's a lawyer, David Boies is the top lawyer and
smarter than all the rest of us put together, and wouldn't be doing this if it
weren't morally correct, etc.
Of course, he's of the opinion that software
inventiveness will dry up and blow away if Oracle doesn't have its way.
He's
one of those who seems to think that copyright should offer residuals forever,
and he also would apparently be perfectly happy for programmers to be serfs,
among other things:
[F]undamentally it seems reasonable for the
owner of Java to expect to profit when others profit from Java.
After all,
if all the Android technology was so easily derived from open source code, why
did Google need to hire “a load of Sun engineers who worked on
Java?”
Obviously, Google should compensate Oracle for stealing
its programmer-slaves.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 24 2012 @ 04:17 PM EDT |
Someone
sees it
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Authored by: celtic_hackr on Thursday, May 24 2012 @ 09:02 PM EDT |
Over 80% think that Oracle is damaged goods now. 76% will never trust it and
about 7% won't trust it in relations to Java.
Only 17% are not influenced. Oracle has really destroyed themselves in the
market.
wow.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 24 2012 @ 09:09 PM EDT |
Article
link.
As I looked, the percentages were:
75.3%, 15.63% (which could
actually still be bad - "oracle hasn't changed to me"), 7.44% (specifically java
related) and 1.64%
If Oracle runs the math on the percentages, they'll
realize:
A: Trusting the percentages work out to a perfectly round number,
there's at least 10,000 developers (including myself) who have taken the
poll.
B: There is between 82.74% and 98.37% developer dissatisfaction
with Oracle.
Talk about killing your brand name.
Of course, it
doesn't mean there's that many who have taken the poll. There's lots of number
combinations that could work out appearing to be a round number... additionally,
rounding on the percentages could be upsetting the actual round number. Only
the pollsters know how many votes have truly been received.
But if it's
true 10,000+ have already voted with a percentage of 80%+ being dissatisfied
with Oracle:
Ouch!
They certainly appear to have pulled a SCOG and
alienated a large swath of their customers.
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