Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringement lawsuit

Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by LoveGracePeace on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:33PM (#30366747)

It surprises me when people lump Oracle (or AWS for that matter) in with the likes of Microsoft.

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Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by nextaccountic on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:26PM (#30367283)

The process to make MS-OOXML an ISO standard was a dirty one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open... and 2008 wasn't that long ago

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Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by dafelst on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @07:46PM (#30368095)

Ballmer era Microsoft is a very different beast to Nadella era Microsoft

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Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by yrro on Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:26AM (#30371567)

I don't see Microsoft jumping to fix all the interop issues their software has with ODF.

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Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by ghaff on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:09PM (#30367125)

Why? They're all enterprise software companies. They participate in open source to greater or lesser degrees. They seem absolutely part of the same category. This isn't either positive or negative commentary but just observation of what they do as businesses.

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Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by christophilus on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @07:03PM (#30367637)

In that Microsoft is way worse or way better? I’m not clear, because they’re all pretty scummy.

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Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by ipaddr on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:14PM (#30367169)

You are right Microsoft could be a more difficult entity to deal with.

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