Tag: oracle

Oracle to dispute verdict in the trail against Google

Oracle demands that the trial that Google won be thrown out on the grounds of withholding evidence during discovery.

Oracle started a copyright case against Google in 2010, claiming infringement on the Java API in Google's Android OS. Oracle lost, for a second time, this May. But now, the Oracle attorneys claim that Google was trying to enter into market for Java SE on desktops, which might have had impact on the jury's decision, while Google's attorneys' response is that this information was beyond the scope of the trial.

Mysql becomes more closed

Oracle moves Mysql towards closed source software as it held back test cases in the latest release of the popular RDBMS. This means that, even though there are some bug fixes in the releas, there is no assurance for the developers as there are no test cases for the reported bugs.

This is only the latest move Oracle makes in alienating the community. OpenOffice lost its foothold after large part of its maintainers decided to fork it and create LibreOffice. As for mysql, it has already been forked to MariaDB, which is one of the recommendations for its users.