[aklug] Re: News: a soap opera that could cost us dearly

From: Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com>
Date: Sat Aug 17 2013 - 11:11:44 AKDT

* Greg Schmitz <greg@amipa.org> [130817 00:15]:
> WARNING: contains "foul language."
>
>
> Actually this is a bit of a follow on to Red Hat dumping ORACLE's MySQL
> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/15/red_hat_to_ditch_mysql_for_mariadb_in_rhel_7/>
>
> Larry vs Larry: Oracle's Ellison says Google's Page acted 'evil'
> http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-08-13/news/41374892_1_larry-page-larry-ellison-hasso-plattner
>
> What a crock of shit - both Google and Oracle look so silly as these
> major players try to call each other names; while basking in the
> limelight the corporate press provides them with, so as - I THINK- to
> distract us all from the evil they both embody. Oracle has been left
> out of most news reports about the recent revelations about NSA, but
> anybody that travels around the DC area is aware of all the buildings
> with Oracle signs (second only to Lockheed) and knows Oracle has many
> contracts with NSA, among others and has profited enormously from our
> Brave New World. It's all smoke and mirrors and I'd bet that if Ellison
> and Page got drunk at a party they'd fuck each other.

  ... they'd do it stone cold sober.

-- 
Tim 
tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
http://www.akwebsoft.com
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