But Oracle actually is evil.
Evil is stomping a kitten to death.
Evil is the gulag, the concentration camp, the cultural revolution.
Oracle is just a business.
Evil is stomping a kitten to death.
Evil is the gulag, the concentration camp, the cultural revolution.
Oracle is just a business.
A hard-nosed business decision. Potentially lucrative, profitable. Not illegal. But demonstrating utter contempt and manipulation of their customers. If this is how Oracle treats its own customers, how do you think they treat competitors like CentOS and the OSS community?
You also have to factor in that ATG's old licensing department was chronically incapable of delivering the correct license files: they used to send out production licences for the wrong IP addresses, session limitations or bad expiration dates, and it wasn't uncommon to have 3 or 4 runarounds with them in order to have what you paid for.
That said, I'm not looking forward to use Oracle Linux in any of our production servers, unless my clients specifically asks for it and pays for the support. And this support has to be of very high quality, it will take me just one canned reply to put CentOS back in.
And surprised that you think defending patents is evil because almost every major IT company right now is doing that.
If all the sheep walk off the cliff then it's the right thing to do!
Don't argue that patents are good because everyone uses them. Find a better rationale for your patent love!
Have a good day.
It's just that it's the kind of business that makes me glad kitten stomping doesn't have an appreciable ROI .
Current North American society appears to deem sociopathic behavoir as being evil - so it's not much of a stretch to claim businesses are evil.
Not saying they can't act good or do good in society though as many obviously do. It's also worth noting that good/evil are not objective binary things - so your definition of evil is likely different then the GP's.
If this is an actual opinion held by North American society - whatever that is - then NAs needs to re-think it's definition.
It's also worth noting that good/evil are not objective binary things - so your definition of evil is likely different then the GP's.
Ah.
I hold to the - possibly old-fashioned - notion - that there is good, there is evil, and they are objective binary states.
True, and one that exists to maximise shareholder value. Alas, that aim may not contribute positively to the larger picture, hence various forms of regulation that exist in many countries.
This is an issue too large for this particular page.
I was giving my honest opinion of his honest opinion.
An opinion that is held by many people
These people have a weak grasp of the concept of 'evil'. In my opinion.
Maybe instead of browbeating
I wasn't doing that. My opinion.
You could consider encouraging Oracle
I'm nobody Oracle is going to listen to. I say this as a guy who has been dealing with Oracle for about a decade, supported database and application servers.
Oracle pays attention to guys that write checks. And not just any checks but big checks.
If the CIO of (say) AT&T brings this up with his sales rep, things will happen. Me .. not so much.
BTW, it isn't illegal
I believe you are reading things that I did not write.