DeWitt Clause?

[kemitchell]

Should the terms include a ban on publishing performance data?

[heathermeeker]

I say no. Those terms mostly came from an old Oracle license, which in turn may have been a flowdown from some upstream requirement.

[kemitchell]

The way I've heard it, the clause did come from Oracle, but if it flowed down, it flowed down from Larry. I've read that he also instituted a blanket ban on hiring from the computer science department where DeWitt worked as a professor.