[bcantrill]

Unsurprisingly -- and as happens almost reflexively on any HN post involving Oracle -- my talk from LISA 2011[0] has already been cited here. I expanded on that in my OSCON 2015 talk[1], to which I would add this: thinking about Oracle as "evil" is really the wrong way of thinking about them; to think of them as diabolical is to infuse the place with a kind of humanity (if crooked) that it doesn't necessarily contain. Oracle is soulless, which may or may not be worse than other companies, but it is decidedly different: however deluded they might be, Meta thinks that they are making the world a better place; Oracle not only doesn't harbor any such delusions, they are further genuinely confused why anyone would care about a higher purpose or calling.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc#t=33m2s

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpnncakrelk#t=14m32s

[pixl97]

They aren't exactly evil... They are what happens when you maximize capitalism, and some people do consider that evil.