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Why the Sun 2 has a message “Love your country, but never trust its government”

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266 points longwave | 5 comments | 25 Jan 16 11:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.235s | source
1. Kristine1975 ◴[25 Jan 16 16:27 UTC] No.10968039[source]▶
Oracle did something similar with the network protocol of its database driver. Not to prevent copying, but to prevent others from writing their own drivers: http://dacut.blogspot.de/2008/03/oracle-poetry.html
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2. tempVariable ◴[25 Jan 16 16:58 UTC] No.10968275[source]▶
OK, is this for real ? Does everyone have to use the Oracle OCI library under the hood ?
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3. Natsu ◴[25 Jan 16 18:35 UTC] No.10968929[source]▶
Definitely real. I WTF'd the first time I read that poem out of a packet capture.
4. GlitchMr ◴[25 Jan 16 19:01 UTC] No.10969121[source]▶
I doubt that it would work in practice. Sega tried similar thing (requiring games on Sega Genesis to print "PRODUCED BY OR UNDER LICENSE FROM SEGA ENTERPRISES LTD.") to block interoperability, and they lost a case against Accolade.
5. JoshTriplett ◴[25 Jan 16 19:39 UTC] No.10969388[source]▶
LEGO tried to do the same thing with their Mindstorms SDK.