Re: Informix vs Oracle, alleged trade secret theft
In article <32f7f86e.10074673@146.178.74.10> csimich@mail.ue.com.au (Christian Simich) writes: >On Thu, 30 Jan 1997 13:54:33 GMT, Nils.Myklebust@idg.no (Nils >Myklebust) wrote: > >>I spesifically do not want to take this discussion about the >>philosophical (ethical) issues much further her in c.d.i. Although it >>affects us all there is a limit to how far we should discuss this kind >>of topic here in a technical newsgroup. Other facts about this case >>are of course interesting. >>All I will say therefore is that I agree with a some of what Christian >>wrote and disagree with most. Now beeing an employer have nothing to >>do with this. I had the same opinions when I for many years where an >>employee. Check your premises and you may see it. Nobody here but us chickens! :) >> >>Hope this ends it. Otherwise it should definitly be taken offline. >> >> >>csimich@mail.ue.com.au (Christian Simich) wrote: >> >>:On Wed, 29 Jan 1997 17:42:12 GMT, Nils.Myklebust@idg.no (Nils >>:Myklebust) wrote: >>: [Much snipped] >>:>netac <netac@worldnet.att.net> wrote: >>:> >>Nils.Myklebust@idg.no >>NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway >>My opinions are those of my company >>The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org > > >After some deliberation, I decided to respond to Nils. I appreciate >his view that he does not want to carry the discussion further. And I >am not going to take that discussion further. > >The reason for response is Nils' comment that this is not a forum for >the "philosophical (ethical) issues". > >Many in this thread have been addressing the non-technical issues (to >my delight). Even Nils' article, what prompted me to respond, used >the word 'free' several times, including the 'free country'. His and >most of the other articles addressed legal, political, economical and >I guess "philosophical (ethical) issues". I believe it's OK. You may not realize that this is being cross-posted to comp.databases.oracle. That happens to be a recently obsoleted group, replaced by a hierarchy. Among the hierarchy is cdo.misc, which is the normal discussion area for Oracle issues. I think it is a good idea to break a technical group into a hierarchy like this, but there are difficulties convincing people to post in the correct group. I did not change the newsgroups when I first saw this thread, as it seemed to be flamebait. Something for all you other groups to consider. > >Professionals should discuss these issues, and the technical forums >are where we 'meet'. Actually, this thread proved to be quiet >popular. I assume you meant quite, as quiet would be sarcasm! :) > > I'd like to see the comments on what others think about using >technical forums for non-technical, yet vital issues for the >professionals. > >Regards, > >Christian > > >PS > >Nils, > >I spent one of best 8 months of my life in Norway and Denmark. Lovely >countries and even lovelier people. And most tolerant I ever met. > >So I hope you would put up with my mischief of answering (on a >somewhat different topic) and would not get too frustrated :-) > >Planning to go to Scandinavia in cc 6 months, we could possibly have a >cup of coffee and discuss the topic further ;-) > >-- >Christian Simich, Melbourne, Australia > >All opinions and statements expressed in this forum are mine >and mine only and should not be attributed to my current >employer or interpreted as support to any commercial >interests. -- Joel Garry joelga@rossinc.com Compuserve 70661,1534 These are my opinions, not necessarily those of Ross Systems, Inc. <> <> %DCL-W-SOFTONEDGEDONTPUSH, Software On Edge - Don't Push. \\ V / panic: ifree: freeing free inodes... O