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Re:Why is there an Oracle copyright in the middle of a Faceb... by ruby_on_rails on Thursday November 18, 2010 @12:10AM (#1916967)
Most likely the same reason why they are going after Google as the new owner of java, because up until they owned sun microsystems, it was in their best interest to support open source. In the aftermath of purchasing Sun, they think its best to become a patent troll.

I hope we see some more karmic justice and Google rips Oracle a new one.

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Re:Why is there an Oracle copyright in the middle of a Faceb... by nikcub on Thursday November 18, 2010 @12:59AM (#1917052)
that has nothing to do with Facebook using BSD licensed javascript from Oracle
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Re:Why is there an Oracle copyright in the middle of a Faceb... by ruby_on_rails on Thursday November 18, 2010 @04:44AM (#1917320)
Sorry, I skimmed the license and assumed it was a paid license, not BSD.

And btw the Oracle snippet is there referencing Java, not javascript.

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