Re:Rich Hickey on Datomic Ions [video]
by striking on Monday September 17, 2018 @08:27PM
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Oracle, Microsoft. They're called "DeWitt clauses", after the researcher who first invoked Oracle's wrath after publishing benchmarks and finding them to be the slowest. Read on:
* more about DeWitt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_DeWitt#The_%22DeWitt_Cla...
* an overview of database licenses with such a clause today: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12116865/1376005
* an essay discussing the legality of such clauses, with links to further material on/about them: https://www.dwheeler.com/essays/dewitt-clause.html