Glen Staufer wrote:
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:03:59 -0600, Gregory G Carter <gcarter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bad question to ask.
What you are asking will land anyone in here in jail in a country with
software patents or part of the trading block of the USA and requires
reverse engineering the installer, and certain sections of the software
to determine how it installs itself.
That is highly illegal, and it violates the software agreement you
agreed to when you downloaded 10g anyway.
Only install the Oracle database on a validated copy of Linux for which
it is designed if you want to stay out of jail.
There isn't any language that I can see in the download click-through
license that specifically prohibits installing Oracle software on an
unsupported platform. If you download the software and use the
'-ignoreSysPrereqs' option or edit the oraparam.ini file, are you
reverse engineering anything? I wouldn't think so.
That isn't the language the poster used though and I quote:
"Any ideas about how
to fool the Oracle Universal Installer into thinking it is on a
supported platform?"
Ideas such as these would require understanding how the installer works.
That is and of itself is illegal. No undestanding is granted without a
license, and it doesn't have to specifically spelled out if you live in
the US and attempt to do this.
It is ORACLE's IP and you do NOT have a right to ANY UNDERSTANDING OF IT
AT ALL.
Why do you think people who patent a software algorithm can sue people
who come up with the same solution because it is so obvious, just by
accident.
JUST because you came up with the same solution independantly, DOES NOT
EXCUSE YOU from breaching IP.
You must pay, and you WILL PAY DEARLY.
You have no RIGHTS WHATSOEVER when you develop software in the USA or
its trading block countries UNLESS:
1) You have a patent that no one can defeat.
2) You have no patent, but argue your case as precedent successfully in
a court, that you actually orginally invented the process and own it.
Both require BILLIONS to defend.
Good Luck and God Speed.
-gc
PS: Or move to Europe.
I'm not a lawyer, but if Oracle really was concerned about this whole
issue, the websites with specific infomation on doing Fedora or Gentoo
installs and the like would be served with take-down notices pretty
quickly. Oracle has no shortage of lawyers; just bigger fish to fry
so to speak.
--Glenn Stauffer