Before it sued Google for copying from Java, Oracle got rich copying IBM’s SQL
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(I got this snapshot from Charles Duan, a researcher at the R Street Institute, a DC think tank that has gotten some funding from Google. Back in January, we published Duan’s article pointing out that Oracle copied the API for Amazon’s S3 platform—part of Amazon Web Services.)Featured Publications
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