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VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom (arstechnica.com)
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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You’re talking the CEO of a company who sued Google on the premise that header files, a descriptor file for what commands can be used and what parameters they took, should be copyrighted?

Oh. That part I didn't know.

The CEO who poisoned the OpenOffice community so thoroughly that the fork, LibreOffice, was founded by the leaders of OpenOffice and became the de facto standard instead of the original, and it happened overnight? That guy?

Yeah, that was just the habit probably.

[–] pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Bruh they're a copywrite law firm (read as patent troll) with a database and a tech company attached. Pretty much all they do is fuck other people over

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world -5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

with a database and a tech company attached

There are three real DBMS options for enterprise - Oracle, PGSQL, MSSQL, and Oracle is the most powerful and least problematic of them.

[–] pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

How is it less problematic? I've only ever worked with the other two

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Well, compare setting up replication under Oracle and PGSQL.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not sure why you would buy an open-source company/product, particularly a GPLv3 one, if you didn't understand or agree with the premise. It's probably the stupidest decision he made. I'm not saying I agree with his other decisions, but most of them made some kind of business sense. With this one, he would have saved a lot of time and effort and received the same value if he'd just spun OO.o off ASAP. The linked timeline kind of says it all.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

I don't get your confusion.

Sun buys StarOffice, Sun opensources it into OpenOffice and supports its development, Sun goes under and gets bought by Oracle with all its stuff.

Then yeah, Oracle killed most of what Sun was doing altruistically (or as part of their desktop\workstation strategy that didn't transpire, who knows). Including OOO.