Throw shoes at Ellison. 10000s of shoes with flyers in them about FSF ;)
This is just another iteration of BSD vs UNIX.
This is so silly. It's like every toy compiler has to pay a license because it looks like "C", even if you make money and other software with it.
As long as they did not "literally" steal the code, I don't see any reason to bother with Oracle's defense.
The same thing happens with MPAA and others, where the actual creators hardly get much but "abstract" corporates get a lot. How long should the copyright law hold? No more than the lifetime of the author. They have made a corporation an abstract person, giving it all sorts of inalienable rights. Lulz ... if that's how you want to go, every time someone in a company commits suicide, the entire corporation needs to be charged with murder and the entire team needs to be thrown in jail and be charged for murder. Every privacy violation would be espionage charges .....
