My Thoughts on the Datomic License

Re:My Thoughts on the Datomic License by cordite on Monday April 28, 2014 @05:20AM (#7658955)

In a presentsrion by Rich Hickey, one of the answers in the Q&A section afterwards about this was along the lines of "I want to put my kids in college"

I too am very interested in diatomic, but I find the no benchmarking clause to be absolutely ridiculous in this environment. sure, some technologies are harder to compare because the specialization differs, but surely with something like the yahoo cloud data test or whatever could be helpful for someone considering the trade offs they get with Datomic.

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Re:My Thoughts on the Datomic License by dustingetz on Monday April 28, 2014 @09:56AM (#7659938)

> I find the no benchmarking clause to be absolutely ridiculous in this environment

That's called a DeWitt Clause and most database ELUAs have it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_DeWitt

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Re:My Thoughts on the Datomic License by dave_sullivan on Monday April 28, 2014 @05:28PM (#7663208)

    The original DeWitt Clause was established by Oracle at     
    the behest of Larry Ellison. Ellison was displeased with 
    a benchmark study done by David DeWitt in 1982, then 
    just an assistant professor, using his new Wisconsin 
    Benchmark, which showed that Oracle's system had poor 
    performance.

It takes a special kind of sicko to take someone you don't like, create a fairly dickish policy to basically restrict free speech/fair comparison of products, then name said dickish policy after the person who was trying to encourage the exact opposite.

See, if it were just "the ellison clause" it would need no further explanation.

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