Citation needed on literally all points. Fuck Oracle, fuck Sun, and fuck Larry Ellison
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rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 days agoDunno, 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.
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 days 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
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I do know what Sun was, and now they’re owned by Oracle. Fuck Sun
And “fuck” literally means “don’t fuck”
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
there’s no sun anymore. It’s oracle
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 days 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?
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oh. That part I didn’t know.
Yeah, that was just the habit probably.
pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days 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
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There are three real DBMS options for enterprise - Oracle, PGSQL, MSSQL, and Oracle is the most powerful and least problematic of them.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 days 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.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I don’t get your confusion.
Sun buys StarOffice, Sun opensources it into OpenOffice and supports its development, Sun goes under and gets bought by Oracle with all its stuff.
Then yeah, Oracle killed most of what Sun was doing altruistically (or as part of their desktop\workstation strategy that didn’t transpire, who knows). Including OOO.
Tja@programming.dev 1 day 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.