Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > So, the fact that the US rubberstamped this deal means the EU is > somehow at fault for doing some more thorough research before giving > the green light? > > I reiterate what I've been saying in other threads as well: Trusting > US financial decisions has cost the EU a couple trillion. Expecting > them to blindly follow suit is ludicrous. > Unfortunately the discussion hasn't moved from a mere trust attribution on the US / EU politics. I only re-state my point: the EU is not forced to rubberstamp US decisions, but:
1. As I said, since 2001 this is only the second time the two boards have different views. 2. Since there are many decisions per year, the Sun/Oracle deal is also the only disagreement point after the financial crisis (just in case it was a relevant point, which I don't agree, but it's another story). If you call that rubberstamping, well it sounds that it goes and will go on, with the only exception of Oracle. 3. The EU has got to explain *why* their vision is different. So far I've only read that there are concerns, but as a citizen who pays taxes I want to see a clear explanation of their concerns, and why they think they disagree with US. I don't know if the lack of this information is due to EU or to newspaper, but it's a fault by somebody. For instance, there's a new communication by the DoJ that - among other things - says that they're not concerned also because MySQL is not the only FLOSS database (in fact there's at least Postgres). Now I'd like to see EU explaining why they don't think it's enough. -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
