Sun did not please the Linux users, who saw the big open source projects from Sun, which had posted strong by that philosophy, were becoming very different things or even seeing a slow demise threatened . Problems with MySQL, Java, OpenOffice.org or OpenSolaris are good examples of this.

increasingly seems to be more clearly the mentality of the firm of Larry Ellison, according to an article on SeekingAlpha is trying to apply copyright to all software so that even applications Open Source proprietary applications become .

FossPatents have also, where they reveal that Oracle is arguing that the APIs, the names of programs, and even the names of subroutines, should have the same copyright protection as the rest of the code, and that protection should be absolute .

That means, in the original article explained that Oracle could not only claim their copyright on MySQL, but on interfaces that connect to other programs and even the names of routines of these programs.

What would cause that? Well interoperability among applications is impossible unless the copyright owner gave permission (perhaps after paying a license fee or permit the use of such copyright).

The problem that arises is even greater than it is affecting the patents to several companies, especially Microsoft and Apple are attacking Android, because Oracle would have total control of MySQL or Java, where now organizations such as Apache Foundation allow authors to keep copyright code on the code .