Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom

• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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      • pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• Tja@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes, that guy. If you compare it to the guy getting children addicted to gambling and manipulating elections, or to the guy destroying workers rights and manipulating the press, or to the guy firing half of the federal workers while doing the Nazi salute, changing the name of a project or a frivolous lawsuit here and there is the least of our concerns.

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