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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by AtlasBarfed on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:25AM (#24751637)
That's precisely the point, Oracle forbids benchmarking and comparisons in its licensing.

So how would anyone (legally) know?

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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by anticensor on Monday October 12, 2020 @05:37AM (#24752790)
Well, you cannot legally publish a benchmark, but you can set up your own for your private uses. It is not like Oracle DB detects it is being benchmarked and shuts off itself.
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