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Including Oracle is a show stopper for me. I will never have anything to do with Evil Corp. again.

The biggest thing, besides all the obvious stupid mistakes (Sauron on a boat? NO, just NO! That would never EVER happen; see Ulmo/Osse), was they diverged from Tolkien lore for no good reason that I can think of. It wasn't required to make a story work. They didn't HAVE to do the whole second age time compressed. They could have chosen a much smaller story and made it awesome. But for some stupid reason they chose what they did and it's comically bad and offensive to the existing Tolkien fan-base. Sure I watched it, because I'm a Tolkien fan and had to so I could intelligently talk about it. I won't be re-watching it because it was crap, and it will always be the sad broken thing in the corner.

It's not like you have a choice anymore since they have discontinued their on premises products and forced their entire customer base to their (more expensive) cloud offerings.

If Discord is a "warning sign", so is practically every Team Collaboration software out there: Skype, Teams, Slack, Yammer, etc etc. Also, every kid out there playing PUBG and Fortnite and every other MMx is on Discord. It is the top gaming collaboration software going.

This happened at my work. It was either commit to a seven figure fine or commit to a multi year Oracle Cloud contract we never ever ever would use for 1/3 the cost. Any consideration given to our being a 20 year Oracle customer or that the infraction was ambiguously interpreted? No, because Oracles license Nazi's are just that: Nazis. Of course we are an Oracle Cloud customer now (and have never even logged into the cloud portal), and just as soon as we can get off this POS company's platform in a few months, we will never have to deal with them again. Fuck you Larry.

Tell me again how my Xfinity broadband connection, which uses one RG58 coax cable to deliver my phone, internet, and cable TV, is not both a telcom service and an information service?

I cringe because I know I'm about to feel like a $20 whore: sore in the ass.

Oracle has screwed over almost their entire customer base including myself due to licensing shenanigans. So no I will not be purchasing anything from that company ever again.

This is both true and false at the same time :). I was pulled over in Boston once by a cop for doing about 60 in a 45 on a highway in Boston. Cop said to keep it under 55 in the future. But then on a similarly sized but much busier road elsewhere in the city, you can get pulled over for doing anything over the speed limit because that road is frequently traveled by out of state and long commute drivers headed out of town, and has many speed traps in a short span. It seems that revenue has quite a bit to do with how strictly LE chooses to enforce the law. I will also say this. I see more and more evidence of lower speed limits being put in place for purposes of driving up ticket revenue. I see new roads having much lower speed limits than similarly sized roads and traveled roads elsewhere for no good reason I can discern. Things like tunnel roads, where there is near zero possibility of harming a non driver, are arbitrarily low and frequently have speed traps.

...well made tin foil hat wouldn't have fixed.

..it seems like more and more companies are following this model, although the religious fervor may be less. We were bitten by the VMware scam this year in an audit triggered by the retirement of a legacy system and it's Oracle CPU licenses. Another dirty trick: audit triggered on any reduction of license, nice one! I've also heard of them playing all sorts of license conversion shenanigans when converting from old licenses to new licenses. Thankfully their audit was the last straw that caused our CIO to dictate that we switch to open source RDBMS providers going forward.

So, about the same as Michael Moore then? Not as much super heated rhetoric probably though.

Who in their right mind would willingly submit to anything from Oracle? Have you ever been audited by them? Horrible company. They have some great products, but the company itself is a nasty evil entity that thinking people avoid like the plague unless they have absolutely no other choice.

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