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superboyac:
I see.  Wow.  That's unfortunate.

zridling:
superboyac: it's because of Oracle's tradition of lies, backstabbing, deceit and being just generally despicable. Sure, that's pretty much something you expect from any big corporation, but Oracle just... seems to be worse.-f0dder (November 02, 2010, 11:38 AM)
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True, and because Oracle is one of the quickest companies to sue everyone in sight at the drop of a hat (or a perceived patent encroachment). In other words, Oracle doesn't make the world a better place. Cisco is another company that's similar -- they repeatedly steal open source code and then try to pawn it off as their own until they get taken to court under the GPL.

superboyac:
superboyac: it's because of Oracle's tradition of lies, backstabbing, deceit and being just generally despicable. Sure, that's pretty much something you expect from any big corporation, but Oracle just... seems to be worse.-f0dder (November 02, 2010, 11:38 AM)
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True, and because Oracle is one of the quickest companies to sue everyone in sight at the drop of a hat (or a perceived patent encroachment). In other words, Oracle doesn't make the world a better place. Cisco is another company that's similar -- they repeatedly steal open source code and then try to pawn it off as their own until they get taken to court under the GPL.
-zridling (November 03, 2010, 03:25 PM)
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Yeah, that's pretty horrible.  Two of the biggest names in enterprise technology...shame.  What does that mean?  You have to be an asshole to be really successful??

VincenzoAI:
-superboyac (November 03, 2010, 05:18 PM)
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Yeah, that's pretty horrible.  Two of the biggest names in enterprise technology...shame.  What does that mean?  You have to be an asshole to be really successful??
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heh - no you don't HAVE to be.  Many though CHOOSE to be and think that they are somehow 'winning'. And sycophants are attracted to the superficial 'winners' which only leads to some sort of positive feedback loop that just grows bigger...until some meaner and uglier take them down.  "It's only business - nothing personal".

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