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0 pointsZikes10y ago0 comments

It's all fun and games until IBM sues Oracle for SQL royalties.

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If I didn't think it would negatively impact the rest of the industry, I'd pay to watch that.

It would be the only possible good outcome. Unless it turned out someone owned enough of the CP/M API for it to bite Microsoft in the bum.

(While we're dreaming, would HP's ownership of VMS mean anything re: NT...)

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0 pointsZikes10y ago0 comments

It's all fun and games until IBM sues Oracle for SQL royalties.

Crito10y ago

If I didn't think it would negatively impact the rest of the industry, I'd pay to watch that.

It would be the only possible good outcome. Unless it turned out someone owned enough of the CP/M API for it to bite Microsoft in the bum.

(While we're dreaming, would HP's ownership of VMS mean anything re: NT...)

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