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Re: Oracle buys Innobase

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On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 11:29:24AM -0700, Dann Corbit wrote:
> Consider what happened to Stak verse MS.  Stak won the court case
> but still went out of business.

My point exactly ;)

Cheers,
D
> 
> > -----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!

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