Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think ‘oh, the lawnmower hates me’ – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle.
Oracle, the official company of “Look, we’re developer friendly now, our stuff is open source and free to use! Oh, right, you’ve activated my trap card, now pay 10k per every employee of your company because you used our proprietary JDK mwhahahahaha”
By all accounts, Larry is a piece of shit.
— Brian Cantrill
Lawnmowers can be a piece of shit too.
Lawnmowers have the bitchiest machine spirits.
True
Oh yeah, I consider him to be the worst billionaire of em all, even “trumping” that muskrat…
Oracle, the official company of “Look, we’re developer friendly now, our stuff is open source and free to use! Oh, right, you’ve activated my trap card, now pay 10k per every employee of your company because you used our proprietary JDK mwhahahahaha”
I thought it was Oracle, the company of “our products are designed for one purpose alone: to tick boxes on RFPs.”
I mean yeah but that’s far less sinister than all their licensing horseplay
That’s a real nice day to describe what is basically fraud