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pjmlp on March 27, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against...

It is hard to compete against a free beer OS originally developed with tech unlawfully taken from other companies.

So one either swims or joins the graveyard of companies that tried to fight it.

monocasa on March 27, 2018 [–]

> It is hard to compete against a free beer OS

I'd argue that it's next to impossible. OSes are a commodity now. Even Microsoft is coming around to that idea.

> tech unlawfully taken from other companies.

All of the previous caselaw said that this was fine.

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