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266 points longwave | 2 comments | 25 Jan 16 11:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.965s | source

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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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1. tempVariable ◴[25 Jan 16 16:58 UTC] No.10968275[source]▶

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OK, is this for real ? Does everyone have to use the Oracle OCI library under the hood ?

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2. Natsu ◴[25 Jan 16 18:35 UTC] No.10968929[source]▶

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Definitely real. I WTF'd the first time I read that poem out of a packet capture.

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