Read more.The TomorrowNow case comes to a conclusion with the biggest ever award for software piracy.
Read more.The TomorrowNow case comes to a conclusion with the biggest ever award for software piracy.
Without knowing the details of the case, I suspect the contents of those pages remained the property of Oracle, so SAP (or TomorrowNow) had no business grabbing it.
However, when something is publicly accessible it's usually a good idea to state clearly what it can and can't be used for, even if it's via a robots.txt to stop automated crawling of it, but in this case it was software, so did the license forbid redistribution? I hope so. But if it did surely it would have been an open/shut case.
So basically, it looks like Oracle have been idiots with their own data, and get paid $1.3bn for it.
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