Consider what happened to Stak verse MS. Stak won the court case but still went out of business. > -----Original Message----- > From: David Fetter [mailto:david@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 11:17 AM > To: Marc G. Fournier > Cc: Dann Corbit; snacktime; pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Oracle buys Innobase > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:47:31PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > Stupid question here, but how susceptible is Oracle to "monopolistic > > practices", similar to what M$ is going through with the DoJ in the > > US? This seems to be *very* close to the line, if it isn't over it > > ... no? > > It may well be, but somebody would have sue, and then they would have > to win against Oracle. I don't think that MySQL AB has the resources > to fight such a legal action, even assuming they'd win it. > > Cheers, > D > -- > David Fetter david@xxxxxxxxxx http://fetter.org/ > phone: +1 510 893 6100 mobile: +1 415 235 3778 > > Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
