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That's literally the next sentence that you intentionally omitted.

And I've seen plenty of people paint Oracle as some evil boogeyman like this is some good vs evil struggle.

Oracle wasn't trying to make Bad Things happen. They were seeking damages from a damaging situation, and if bad things had happened... I'd blame the patent trolls and judges that enable them.

Their insanity continues regardless of the verdict after all, and there are plenty of otherwise reasonable takes ruined by their existence.



Oracle wasn't trying to make Bad Things happen.

I didn't say they were.

They were seeking damages from a damaging situation, and if bad things had happened... I'd blame the patent trolls and judges that enable them.

The issue at hand is about copyright not patents.

And note that I'm not saying that nothing bad can, or will, ever happen again. I'm just saying that the consequences of this decision coming down the other way would have been Very Bad, which makes the current decision a Very Good Thing in general.


Are you familiar with Oracle's business practices? They are indeed evil.

Google started out with the stated intent to not be evil but now they're allowing that possibly and are making good progress.


> I've seen plenty of people paint Oracle as some evil boogeyman

“Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower.”


That's exactly it, except here I would say someone stuck their hand in the lawnmower and got away with it.

But people were upset the lawnmower tried to take the hand at all




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