The disclaimer is there - though I'd be amazed if its mere existence
actually absolved Oracle of legal responsibility for the contents.
Especially as you say the views do not necessarily reflect thoe of Oracle. I
might if I were being perverse decide that they did in any given instance,
and so I suspect might a court.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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"Rick Wessman" <Rick.WessmanNO_SPAM_at_oracle.com> wrote in message
news:ab73ds0bav_at_drn.newsguy.com...
> In article <3cd4150a$0$8512$cc9e4d1f_at_news.dial.pipex.com>, "Niall says...
> >
> >"Pete Sharman" <peter.sharman_at_oracle.com> wrote in message
> >news:aauadn0610_at_drn.newsguy.com...
> >> I had to go through similar hoops and jumps to get the right to publish
my
> >8i
> >> Architecture and Administration exam cram book. I didn't like it much
> >then, I
> >> don't like it much in Howard's case, but I can understand their
viewpoint.
> >It's
> >> unfortunate, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. Of course, we
could
> >always
> >> leave Oracle and then not have this concern ... ;)
> >
> >I'm a little confused as to how you and the other Oracle employees are
> >allowed to post to usenet. I value your contribution and would hate to
lose
> >it but surely the same argument applies. Its a public forum - you even
have
> >an oracle.com email address. the links to oracle are if anything clearer
> >than in the hjrdba case.
> >
> >Niall
> >
> >who doesn't like the decision but if the argument applies in one place
> >thinks it should be applied everywhere.
> >
> >
> We had to get permission from our Legal department in order to be able to
post.
> The one requirement that was imposed was that we have to put to a
disclaimer at
> the bottom of our posts. This disclaimer frees Oracle of legal
responsibility
> for the accuracy of our posts.
>
> Rick
>
> P.S. There should be a disclaimer there. I customized Newsguy to put it
there.
> If it's not, please let me now.
>
> Rick Wessman
> Oracle Corporation
>
> The opinions expressed above are mine and do not necessarily reflect
> those of Oracle Corporation.
>
Received on Tue May 07 2002 - 03:07:24 CDT
