Re: Open Source Oracle?

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 20:40:40 -0700
Message-ID: <1095219707.985442@yasure>

Mladen Gogala wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:31:37 -0700, Daniel Morgan wrote:
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>>No doubt Microsoft and others would love to get their hands on the 
>>source code. All that effort put into getting MVCC into Yukon and
>>they could just steal it.

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> Open source code doesn't mean that it's free for stealing.

Neither were a lot of other things that have made it to Microsoft's Redmond campus. One thing there is huge quantity is copies of commercial software products made by other companies. And rarely a dollar paid to legally license what is there.

The company is hardly known for it adherence ethical standards: Except its own.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)

Received on Tue Sep 14 2004 - 22:40:40 CDT