Re: Expanded Oracle DBA Site
> I am amazed that people can be so stupid.
Me too.
When a writer works for a publisher, they no longer have ANY claim to
the material. Besides, as an Oracle employee, Howard J. Rogers should
not have been so rude and condescending.
It is the deceit and arrogance that bothers me.
Howard J. Rogers could have sent a private e-mail, but he chose to
post a "it sucks" thread on six large newsgroups instead. Remember,
Hoard J. Rogers did this smear knowing that he was not entitled to
place his copyright.
Also, Howard J. Rogers all but admitted in the other thread that he
created Lydian Third solely to thwart Oracle Corporations claim of
ownership over their material:
This quote by Howard J. Rogers is pretty clear:
"Depressed though I am at recent events, such comments have persuaded
me that it is worthwhile to keep going . . . The site that was taken
down was my fifth. "Lydian Third" is a musical term. My trusty OED
tells me that it is "the mode represented by the natural diatonic
scale F-F."
Given the above, and the fact that Howard J. Rogers wrote that
www.hjrdba.com was the fifth site he had taken down, I would have a
really hard time believing that Howard J. Rogers does not have
anything to do with Lydian Third.
Granted, the fellow should not willy-nilly reproduce web pages, but
that does not give Howard the right to publicly humiliate them,
especially as an Oracle Corporation employee and author.
Frankly, I think that there are no "clean hands" on either side of
this dispute.
Received on Wed Apr 23 2003 - 23:24:12 CEST
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