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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 03:08:38 -0800
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From: Rachel Carmichael <wisernet100@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink
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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@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
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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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