uh... really? Not the quality of life, not the level of happiness/satisfaction, not the level of education, not even GDP per capita?

Just how many trains the country got?

I used to think Oracle and Ellison had at least earned respect for making some very good database implementations, but this looks like it at least counteracts whatever was left of that.

(The one time I used any Oracle products it was enterprise servers chosen by a third-party provider, and it seemed no worse than the rest of the enterprise market)

@valthonis I remember a time you could make a legitimate compelling case that the Oracle database products were more reliable than the open-source or Microsoft alternatives.

I also remember attending rallies for the Ralph Nader campaign*.

* No, I didn't vote for him, and anyway I wasn't 18

I can appreciate Oracle for seemingly killing Java for all new projects nearly instantly. Of course I also hate them because it's a huge pain in the ass to get an up to date JRE when I need one because of their bullshit.

But, yeah, awful company run by awful people.

I might be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure the API Oracle sued over pre-dated them open sourcing Java. It's one of the reasons the lawsuit was so petty. By the time it had worked its way through the courts, Google had switched over to the open API so they were suing for stuff that no longer applied.

(One of the many reasons why I have strong negative opinions about Oracle)

> But NOBODY interacts with Oracle on purpose.

*Nobody* expects the Oracle inquisition! Amongst their weaponry, are such diverse elements as;

Fear, surprise, ruthless inefficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to Larry Ellison, and a nice brown uniform...

Larry Ellison *could* be correct in his statement but for one flaw: he wants this universal surveillance to be in the exclusive control of a tiny minority of Watchers or "law enforcement".

THAT WILL BE ABUSED by that minority and the One Percent they call masters, and we all know it.

The ONLY way that universal surveillance truly works for the Common Good is when EVERYONE has access to the data streams from those devices.

Once it's understood who Larry Ellison is softsoaping to get investment cash for his anti-democracy schemes, it's obvious why he's pushing AI & ubiquitous surveillance
nytimes.com/2024/03/19/busines…

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aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/28/…

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His investors are preparing to flush money down the drain to end any democracy trying to escape their fossil fuel overlords
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Is the surveillance going to be open source.

Don't think so they ain't t going to share their private agendas in the system.

As usual not for people's good but minority.

I always thought of Oracle as the lawful evil tech company. At least prior to the Sun acquisition, their evil was directed almost exclusively at people who had signed a contract with them, whereas most other big tech companies manage to do a lot more collateral damage.

It's easy to dislike Oracle and never have to touch their products. The same is somewhat true of Apple. It's far less true of the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Facebook.

We just had to build a whole ass library internally to build their damn TNSNames.ora file as needed since it's not well explained, they provide zero tooling and organizationally we weren't getting timely updates on anything because everybody else is likewise phobic of breaking their file.

It's fixed now, finally, but it shouldn't have been this hard.

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