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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by monocasa on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @07:36PM (#16703116)
The ANSI/ISO standards came out nearly a decade after Oracle's DB was released.

Before that, Oracle ripped off Chamberlin and Boyce's work. Which they should be able to do, because APIs shouldn't be copyright-able.

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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by pjmlp on Thursday March 29, 2018 @02:33AM (#16704978)
And how do you think standards get written, out of thin air?

At least Oracle payed something back, unlike Google, ripped off Sun and then stepped on it on their dying breath.

If it wasn't for Oracle we would be stuck porting Java 6 to other languages.

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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by monocasa on Thursday March 29, 2018 @12:49PM (#16708569)
Most of the folklore seems to point to the ANSI/ISO work being done by IBM.
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