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[-] Gork@lemm.ee 307 points 2 months ago

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

[-] devfuuu@lemmy.world 139 points 2 months ago

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

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago
[-] pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 months ago

Anyone who uses Oracle DB or virtualbox in a corporate environment

[-] Franklin@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Tja@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

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

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 months 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

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

They have some very big military contracts

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 40 points 2 months ago

I think it had something to do with Broadcom wanting to go for a few big customers and don't want to deal with the small fry anymore.

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 30 points 2 months ago

Surely no competitors will grow in the small and medium business market to eventually be a competitor...

[-] fishpen0@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago

Broadcom knows they bought a dying platform. Their strategy is to isolate the customers incapable of ever migrating and charge them as close to near bankruptcy as possible. They’ll get their initial return on investment in under 5 years and then eventually just let VMware die because new businesses that are still nimble all moved to other platforms anyway. They’ll hit Lotto tickets with a few whales and keep 5-10 devs on to patch stuff for those whales and print 100-1000x return on costs in perpetuity.

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 20 points 2 months ago

That is ... bleak.

I suspect you are correct.

RemindMe in 5 years
#I know that doesn't work here

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

(And that god that bot doesn’t work here)

[-] turtle@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

I think I've seen people using this on Lemmy, but I'm not sure if it works: https://fedi.tips/is-there-a-reminder-bot-for-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Capitalism is the woooooorst...

[-] prole 7 points 2 months ago

The RIAA special

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