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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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DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::Oracle::WhereJoins(3pm)	User Contributed Perl Documentation	DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::Oracle::WhereJoins(3pm)

NAME

       DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::Oracle::WhereJoins - Oracle joins in WHERE syntax support (instead of ANSI).

PURPOSE

       This module is used with Oracle < 9.0 due to lack of support for standard ANSI join syntax.

SYNOPSIS

       DBIx::Class should automagically detect Oracle and use this module with no work from you.

DESCRIPTION

       This class implements Oracle's WhereJoin support.  Instead of:

	   SELECT x FROM y JOIN z ON y.id = z.id

       It will write:

	   SELECT x FROM y, z WHERE y.id = z.id

       It should properly support left joins, and right joins.	Full outer joins are not possible due to the fact that Oracle requires the entire
       query be written to union the results of a left and right join, and by the time this module is called to create the where query and table
       definition part of the SQL query, it's already too late.

METHODS

       See DBIx::Class::SQLMaker::OracleJoins for implementation details.

BUGS

       Does not support full outer joins.  Probably lots more.

SEE ALSO

       DBIx::Class::SQLMaker
       DBIx::Class::SQLMaker::OracleJoins
       DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::Oracle::Generic
       DBIx::Class

AUTHOR

       Justin Wheeler "<jwheeler@datademons.com>"

CONTRIBUTORS

       David Jack Olrik "<djo@cpan.org>"

LICENSE

       This module is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2011-05-10			DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::Oracle::WhereJoins(3pm)