Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom

• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Bruh they’re a copywrite law firm (read as patent shark) with a database and a tech company attached. Pretty much all they do is fuck other people over

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      • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m not sure why you would buy an open-source company/product, particularly a GPLv3 one, if you didn’t understand or agree with the premise. It’s probably the stupidest decision he made. I’m not saying I agree with his other decisions, but most of them made some kind of business sense. With this one, he would have saved a lot of time and effort and received the same value if he’d just spun OO.o off ASAP. The linked timeline kind of says it all.

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Citation needed on literally all points. Fuck Oracle, fuck Sun, and fuck Larry Ellison

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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      • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I do know what Sun was, and now they’re owned by Oracle. Fuck Sun

        And “fuck” literally means “don’t fuck”

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