But that's what I tried to explain, Fabrizio: The reasons for the delay are probably entirely political; it has nothing to do with the technical merits of this case.
Casper: Yes! Good memory - the cheese incident is pretty much exactly what I meant with the US bullying the EU by pulling stupid stunts like that. Steven: Both Oracle and Sun have a sizable european market. If the EU wants, they can prohibit snorcle from selling anything in the entire EU market. That would devastate them. Technically snorcle can give the EU the finger, and merge, but such a rash act would probably be met by the EU calling their bluff and actually making their operation in the monetary EU illegal. On Oct 10, 9:29 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > > [snip] > > My point is simpler :-) It's a good thing that EU investigates - what I > find intolerable is how long is going to take (*). EU is not well known > for efficiency, and sometimes they should realize that delays are a > damage comparable to the ones they are trying to avoid. > > (*) For the sake of curiosity, somebody should explain me what part of > the Oracle - MySQL relationship needs six months to be investigated. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/blog > [email protected] - mobile: +39 348.150.6941 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
