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[–] [email protected] 314 points 1 week ago (22 children)

Threatening to sue your customers is such a brilliant business move.

[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 week ago (9 children)

It's also the business model of Oracle I think and they are wildly successful.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Anyone who uses Oracle DB or virtualbox in a corporate environment

[–] Franklin 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm forced to work with Oracle databases, FML I hate it so much

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why? I get that the company is awful, but the database is quite good, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago

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

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