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minus-squareGork@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up252·2 months agoThreatening to sue your customers is such a brilliant business move.
minus-squaredevfuuu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up115·2 months agoIt’s also the business model of Oracle I think and they are wildly successful.
minus-squarepyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·2 months agoAnyone who uses Oracle DB or virtualbox in a corporate environment
minus-squareFranklin@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 months agoI’m forced to work with Oracle databases, FML I hate it so much
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 month agoWhy? I get that the company is awful, but the database is quite good, isn’t it?
minus-squareOsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 month 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-up9·2 months agoRight? That’s what encouraged me to sail the high seas.
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months 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
Right? That’s what encouraged me to sail the high seas.
Especially those who are perfectly in the right legally and morally.