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by liability 2320 days ago
How many more businesses, if financially strained by Oracle licensing fees, would be tempted to sell data about their users to make up the difference?
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I have to sell user data because my dB licensing fees are too high.... is one hell of a take. Has that happened like ever?
It's a big world. A lot of businesses are only marginally viable already, and a lot of business owners are only marginally ethical. Many already sell user data. I think it likely that squeezing such businesses even harder from the top might have negative consequences for the people at the bottom.