This is similar to what AWS recently did with providing MongoDB interface with its DocumentDB offering.
If Oracle wins, it logically goes then AWS would not be allowed to provide MongoDB interface to DocumentDB.
If I think back in time, Java was just reference implementation of the API. Sun JDK VM being one implementation of it, OpenJDK being the other. By that extension, Google wrote its own VM for it, that worked on mobile phone OS.
IMO, agents are not almost always not acting in buyer's interest. The percentage based commission is twisted in getting the buyer to bid for as much as they can pull.
So, realtors at least for buyers, not such a great value, other than getting you access to lock box to view a property.
Well everyone is talking about the energy usage, which is the point of the experiment.
But what happens after 5 years (the expected life of the datacenter). Most of the computers in there will be worthless then. Will they bring up the datacenter and reload it with new equipment? Will the cost-benefit be in favor of re-equipment or just sink a new one in? If its going to be cheaper to just drop a new one in, we will have ocean floor littered with dead datacenters.
This is ridiculous case
- lets sue sugar manufacturing for making sugar, which caused us to gain weight and other over weight related problems.
- heck, lets sue the farmer that grew the sugarcane and beet that were used to manufacture sugar.
The lawyers of Oakland and SF don't drive cars? Or travel on planes?
If the intention is to put pressure on the Oil companies to stop lobbying against clean energy - I don't think, this is the right approach.
Also, a side note, I would rather just run "head massivefile" or even better "less massivefile" (because, most probably I'd want to see past what head shows by default). Running cat and then piping it to another program is inefficient, 2 forks + pipe.