you put the code out in the world without a comment in it about copying
is not allowed and you've made it free for the taking.
Compensation isn't likely. Credit is definitely due and should be
given.
- John.Hallas_at_vodafone.co.uk wrote:
> Jared,
> You should feel upset as well as flattered. In my view you have a
> strong
> case against Oracle for some form of compensation, as a minimum you
> should
> be credited in the article.
> Whether you can win against a big corporation is another matter of
> course.
> I and many others can confirm that the document has been on your site
> for at
> least 3 - 4 years (although they state the article to be originally
> dated
> 1998).
>
> I would certainly be in contact with Oracle about this. Perhaps a
> good
> starting point would be your sales rep or contact at wherever you are
> working now.
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: 10 October 2002 08:13
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>
>
> Dear list,
>
> I found something rather interesting on MetaLink today.
>
> While doing a little research on UTL_FILE, I came across
> document # 1050919.6. This document deals with how to
> dump a table to an ascii file.
>
>
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_datab
> ase_id=NOT&p_id=1050919.6
>
> I began to think the code looked a little familiar. Then I
> saw the temporary file name of '_dtmp.sql', which was
> rather reminiscent of file names I use.
>
> Further perusal revealed that the comments were written
> by yours truly, and match word for word those I added to
> the dump.sql script years ago.
>
> See for yourself: http://www.cybcon.com/~jkstill/util/zips/dump.sql
>
> I don't know whether to be flattered or upset.
>
> Jared
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