If they own the copyright, they are free to relicense a piece of data

Sorry to be pedantic, but replace "a piece of data" with "a work of authorship". If there isn't the creative work of a human being involved, it's not copyrightable. And then we get to this:

17 CFR 102(b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.

And that means that even when the hand of man is involved, a lot of things are still not copyrightable.

Let's look at what Oracle is doing. I'll start the list of moves that appear to be intended to alienate the community around the very software they're promoting and cause the Open Source community to create viable forks that end up absconding with the product and its market. You guys contribute additional examples...

• Oracle v. Google regarding Java and the premise that APIs are copyrightable.
• Apache OpenOffice v. LibreOffice (which has a full-time negative publicity generator in Rob Weir).
• MySQL v. MariaDB.

IBM isn't known for dumb moves, but partnering with Oracle on this sure is one.

Bruce

Discussing the requests openly, either within or beyond the walls of an involved company, can violate federal law

Any act of congress that purports to deny our freedom of speech is not a law at all, but a usurpation. Congress has no power to trump the constitution.

-jcr

Children should be brought up having studied the Constitution and bill of rights and fully understand what it says

That's not going to happen as long as we put up with government schools.

-jcr

I guess they've decided to abandon all pretense of upholding our civil rights, and have decided to dedicate themselves to inventing ever more asinine pretensions to claim that the bill of rights doesn't say what it says.

Fuck those goddamned shysters.

-jcr

Is something that tells me every time the president does another power-grab.

-jcr

Wow, you are one long-winded little boot licker, aren't you?

-jcr

The entire point of the constitution was to put limits on government, serious limits.

And apropos of that, the constitution is the entirety of the legal basis for the government's very existence. Whenever it exceeds the powers granted in the constitution, it is acting without any legal authority.

-jcr

high-school dropouts & moronic Ron Paul libertarians.

Go fuck yourself. Ron Paul warned us that the NSA was violating our privacy, and he's been proven right not just this time, but over and over.

the NSA is filled with professionals that fully understand rights and freedoms,

Oh, they understand the rights they're violating on a routine basis? That makes it all better. Sure it does.

-jcr

You are so wrong it isn't even funny.

We're running app stacks at full line rate on 40GbE using today's hardware. A dual-socket sandy bridge server (I.e. HP DL380) has no problem driving that kind of bandwidth. Look up Intel DPDK or 6Windgate if you want to learn a thing or two.

It's real, it works, and we're getting ready to start 100GbE testing.

I am sorry officer, I do not consent to searches

I'm not apologetic about my rights. I would refuse with a statement along the lines of "I don't consent to searches, and if you were an honest, patriotic American, you wouldn't be trying to undermine the fourth amendment to the constitution."

-jcr