[p4ul]

"Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison." [1].

[1.] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s

[nayuki]

> And by the way, and I've already fallen into this trap here, do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. Because if you--you need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawn mower. Lawnmower just does, like, mows the lawn. Like, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think like, oh the lawnmower hates me, lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Lawnmower--you don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower, don't fall into that trap about Oracle.

> So, and in particular with open source, oh they wanted to kill OpenSolaris, like no, the lawnmower doesn't care about OpenSolaris. The lawnmower doesn't think about OpenSolaris, the lawnmower can't care about OpenSolaris. The lawnmower can't have empathy.

(I listened to the speech and manually cleaned up YouTube's automatic transcription.)

[heresie-dabord]

> you need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower.

If a large enough number of people thought this way, they would awaken one morning to find their garages or yard sheds surrounded by Oracle lawyers.

[bravetraveler]

Have most not already, with HOAs?

[indrora]

"ORACLE: (n, abbr, nonstd.) One Rich Asshole called Larry Ellison."