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minus-squareGork@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up269·3 days agoThreatening to sue your customers is such a brilliant business move.
minus-squaredevfuuu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up120·3 days agoIt’s also the business model of Oracle I think and they are wildly successful.
minus-squarepyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down1·3 days agoAnyone who uses Oracle DB or virtualbox in a corporate environment
minus-squareFranklin@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·3 days agoI’m forced to work with Oracle databases, FML I hate it so much
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·2 days agoWhy? I get that the company is awful, but the database is quite good, isn’t it?
minus-squareOsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·2 days agoNot only is it worse than Postgres by almost every metric, they actively sue people who criticize it. I.e. even Hacker News took this post down: https://archive.is/ryseO
minus-squareGeodad@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 days agoRight? That’s what encouraged me to sail the high seas.
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoEspecially those who are perfectly in the right legally and morally.
Threatening to sue your customers is such a brilliant business move.
It’s also the business model of Oracle I think and they are wildly successful.
Who are Oracle’s customers?
MBAs
Anyone who uses Oracle DB or virtualbox in a corporate environment
I’m forced to work with Oracle databases, FML I hate it so much
Why? I get that the company is awful, but the database is quite good, isn’t it?
Not only is it worse than Postgres by almost every metric, they actively sue people who criticize it. I.e. even Hacker News took this post down: https://archive.is/ryseO
The CIA
Project Oracle babyyyy
Right? That’s what encouraged me to sail the high seas.
Especially those who are perfectly in the right legally and morally.