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Re:Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation by rbanffy on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @03:05PM (#2608811)
> They might as well donate all their Java patents to Google

Are you kidding?!

They could donate them to the FSF, ASF or any other non-profit entity dedicated to promote of free and open-source software. Donating them to Google would create a whole lot of temptations the folks in Mountain View really don't need.

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Re:Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation by Kaizyn on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @03:40PM (#2608974)
But they have "Don't be evil" as a motto. How could they possibly be tempted by that?
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Re:Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation by ascendant on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @04:05PM (#2609068)
Ok, we get it. Google is "evil". I'd pay $0.05 for every time someone wants to harp on this and DOESNT.
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