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Old 09-09-2010
FSF: Nothing Can Excuse Oracle's Patent Aggression
FSF has issued a statement about Oracle's patent infringement lawsuit against Google over Android. While Google could have avoided all this by using the GPL'd IcedTea and they have yet to take a stand against software patents, still nothing, FSF writes, can excuse Oracle's patent aggression. "Oracle is wrong to use its patents to attack Android," FSF concludes.
They have a number of suggestions on how they think you can help, including searching for prior art. The result of all this, unless Oracle changes course, will be, FSF points out, that everyone will dump Java:
Programmers will justifiably steer clear of Java when they stand to be sued if they use it in some way that Oracle doesn't like. One of the great benefits of free software is that it allows programs to be combined in ways that none of the original developers would've anticipated, to create something new and exciting. Oracle is signaling to the world that they intend to limit everyone's ability to do this with Java, and that's unjustifiable.
If you have prior art, you can place it here or on the End Software Patents wiki, as they suggest, or both.

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sql::reservedwords::oracle

SQL::ReservedWords::Oracle(3pm) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   SQL::ReservedWords::Oracle(3pm)

NAME

       SQL::ReservedWords::Oracle - Reserved SQL words by Oracle

SYNOPSIS

	  if ( SQL::ReservedWords::Oracle->is_reserved( $word ) ) {
	      print "$word is a reserved Oracle word!";
	  }

DESCRIPTION

       Determine if words are reserved by Oracle Database.

METHODS

       is_reserved( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by either Oracle7, Oracle8i, Oracle9i or Oracle10g.

       is_reserved_by_oracle7( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by Oracle7.

       is_reserved_by_oracle8( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by Oracle8i.

       is_reserved_by_oracle9( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by Oracle9i.

       is_reserved_by_oracle10( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by Oracle10g.

       reserved_by( $word )
	   Returns a list with Oracle versions that reserves $word.

       words
	   Returns a list with all reserved words.

EXPORTS

       Nothing by default. Following subroutines can be exported:

       is_reserved
       is_reserved_by_oracle7
       is_reserved_by_oracle8
       is_reserved_by_oracle9
       is_reserved_by_oracle10
       reserved_by
       words

SEE ALSO

       SQL::ReservedWords

       <http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/>

AUTHOR

       Christian Hansen "chansen@cpan.org"

COPYRIGHT

       This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.8.8							    2008-03-28					   SQL::ReservedWords::Oracle(3pm)