Re: Oracle buys Innobase

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@fetter.org]
> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 11:17 AM
> To: Marc G. Fournier
> Cc: Dann Corbit; snacktime; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 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
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