Oracle Broadens Legal Fight Against Third-party Solaris Support Providers

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @05:11PM from the friendly-neighborhood-corporation-looking-out-for-you dept.

angry tapir writes "Oracle is continuing its legal battle against third-party software support providers it alleges are performing such services in a manner that violates its intellectual property. Last week, Oracle sued StratisCom, a Georgia company that offers customers support for Oracle's Solaris OS, claiming it had 'misappropriated and distributed copyright, proprietary software code, along with the login credentials necessary to download this code from Oracle's password-protected websites.'"

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We all know the acronym... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-28 17:23 · Score: 5, Funny

O.R.A.C.L.E.
One Raging Asshole Called Larry Ellison ;)
As someone who used to work with their databases, they're pretty darn good, but the business side of things just make you want to run screaming...
Re:What assholes by noh8rz10 · 2014-01-28 17:39 · Score: 4, Funny

Why is this such trash jobs and nut faces? Fair disclosure: I used to work at oracle as a yacht captain.