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1. Asooka+(OP)[view] [source] 2017-12-09 17:55:28
I suppose you could also go at it from the angle that it's an anti-competitive practice and no license should be able to restrict you from publishing truthful benchmarks.
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2. drb91+y1[view] [source] 2017-12-09 18:13:58
>>Asooka+(OP)
You could knowingly publish incorrect, fictional, or fabricated results. When they sue, you won’t have violated any license. But at least oracle will look terrible.
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3. saghm+G7[view] [source] [discussion] 2017-12-09 19:15:10
>>drb91+y1
Then they'll just sue for libel instead
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4. markbn+Pg[view] [source] 2017-12-09 20:49:30
>>Asooka+(OP)
Yeah I don't know, you'd need a lawyer to weigh in on that. Contract law and all the stuff around mutual agreements and consideration (the monetary kind) is pretty fundamental. You can always walk away and use a different database. If they put a set of x conditions on a doc and you sign it and hand over a huge check I'd guess a condition would have to be actually illegal for a court to invalidate just that part of the agreement.
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5. vijayr+rh[view] [source] [discussion] 2017-12-09 20:54:50
>>drb91+y1
This sounds like a terrible idea. Maybe if one is a 15 year old kid, sure, for shits and giggles. Why would a researcher do this, damaging their reputation in the process? And what good does it serve anyone?
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6. drb91+vo1[view] [source] [discussion] 2017-12-10 17:24:01
>>vijayr+rh
Mostly because it’s a better world than one where Oracle can control the image of their shitty db.
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7. drb91+Bo1[view] [source] [discussion] 2017-12-10 17:24:47
>>saghm+G7
You can clearly label it ad fictional and explain. Really the point here is to have some portrayal of oracle’s performance that is legal but pisses off Oracle.
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