@cdaffara@... Excellent and in depth reply.
Inasmuch as companies have tried to avoid GPL testing at court, maybe this is the time to do so.
Most of us thought that SCO vs. IBM would ultimately be a battle on GPL, but when Novell entered the fry, it became apparent that IBM had opted for a shortcut approach and wasn't willing to test GPL at all. In the end, SCO lost all.
But Oracle's not SCO although they share the common thread of being Enterprise exclusive companies. Google, on the other hand, is almost completely consumer oriented. In the end, Oracle's easier to tumble as it depends on just a couple of customers and after BEA, PeopleSoft and JDEdwards buyouts and now Sun, has increased in size beyond control (akin to Microsoft).
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