Because Oracle sucks donkey balls.
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Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months agoI’m out of the loop. Why not virtualbox?
Zacpod@lemmy.world 10 months ago
seanom@lemmy.world 10 months ago
One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Dunno, Larry well understands what he does unlike most tech CEOs and owners today. Oracle was allied to Sun at some point. Larry has that demonic appearance, but he’s less of a threat than literally anybody else of them. Especially since Larry already has enormous power which he abuses less than expected.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
You’re talking the CEO of a company who sued Google on the premise that header files, a descriptor file for what commands can be used and what parameters they took, should be copyrighted? The CEO who poisoned the OpenOffice community so thoroughly that the fork, LibreOffice, was founded by the leaders of OpenOffice and became the de facto standard instead of the original, and it happened overnight? That guy?
Tja@programming.dev 10 months ago
Yes, that guy. If you compare it to the guy getting children addicted to gambling and manipulating elections, or to the guy destroying workers rights and manipulating the press, or to the guy firing half of the federal workers while doing the Nazi salute, changing the name of a project or a frivolous lawsuit here and there is the least of our concerns.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You’re talking the CEO of a company who sued Google on the premise that header files, a descriptor file for what commands can be used and what parameters they took, should be copyrighted?
Oh. That part I didn’t know.
The CEO who poisoned the OpenOffice community so thoroughly that the fork, LibreOffice, was founded by the leaders of OpenOffice and became the de facto standard instead of the original, and it happened overnight? That guy?
Yeah, that was just the habit probably.
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Citation needed on literally all points. Fuck Oracle, fuck Sun, and fuck Larry Ellison
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fuck Oracle,
Suppose so
fuck Sun,
Either you are so ignorant you don’t know what Sun was, or you are out of your fucking mind.
and fuck Larry Ellison
That’s up to everyone, I personally don’t find him that attractive
slappypantsgo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I don’t understand what these folks are saying. VirtualBox is community software. It does not matter that it comes from Oracle since it is fully libre/open.