alt Hacker NewsThe First Amendment doesn't prevent the government from enforcing contracts between private parties who have agreed not to speak.
The First Amendment doesn't prevent the government from enforcing contracts between private parties who have agreed not to speak.
There's still freedom of speech missing somewhere in this... it seems reasonable to me if we were talking about two businesses, but to prevent a john doe to publish benchmark results? Pardon me but that sounds a lot like corporate-sponsored state-backed censorship. Quite ironic considering Oracle is US-based.