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A comment on Ask HN: Is Oracle that much more evil than other big companies?.

Re:Ask HN: Is Oracle that much more evil than other big comp... by dijit on Monday October 30, 2023 @06:18PM (#38076732)
Oracle is “most evil” because they maximise the harm they can do legally and have mastered the art of lock-in and rent seeking.

Often they will even acquire companies to expand the rent seeking empire.

Their flagship product has strict legal requirements that you are never allowed to publish benchmarks of comparable systems and believe me they have the legal force on staff to pursue you indefinitely.

They very much deserve the reputation they have.

Google, Microsoft et al. throw the community a bone with loss leaders and generate good will by not being especially litigious.

Netflix is basically not evil in any definable way.

Apple is divisive; their biggest issue is that they are awful to work for and have mastered the art of audience segmentation which is why they can charge $400 for 8G of RAM. Which to many feels evil.

Oracle is easily the worst of these.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Oracle that much more evil than other big comp... by friend_and_foe on Monday October 30, 2023 @06:28PM (#38076835)
I'd say Netflix propagandizes heavily, and they're trying to move to an ad model, and Apple does the vendor lock in thing extremely effectively.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Oracle that much more evil than other big comp... by WillDaSilva on Monday October 30, 2023 @06:28PM (#38076838)
Netflix is a major force behind the development and uptake of web DRM, which I'd consider pretty evil.
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