[silvestrov]

> It's like McDonald's selling you a burger and telling you how to eat it.

and you are not allowed to criticize it or write about the size of it or how much meat there is in it or how filling it is to eat the burger.

and you are definitely not allowed to compare it to burgers from other companies.

[sysguest]

and you're not allowed to open a restaurant (same food industry == competition) if you have even took one bite of the burger

[bombcar]

Apparently a bunch of luxury brands make you beg and apply to buy, and if you ever disparage them, you never get to buy from them again.

So eventually that'll apply to McDonalds.

[amiga386]

Luxury brands vs... McDonalds. I don't think it will.

However, the luxury brands have the Soup Nazi's business model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soup_Nazi

[miohtama]

Not allowing to criticize is practically a law in some European countries

https://ppc.land/german-businesses-systematically-delete-cri...

[junon]

A system being abused by mass-false-reports =/= "practically a law".

[LunaSea]

And the US with Oracle famously making it illegal to benchmark the performance of their database.

[doubled112]

Didn't Atlassian have a clause in their TOS where you weren't allowed to discuss the performance of their cloud?

[consp]

... you can say anything about an empty set so when there is no performance ...

[euroderf]

Nobody obeys this, right ? There's gotta be people anonymously posting performance results.

[reactordev]

Because never before have we seen inverse power laws applied to table queries we were told would be faster than Postgres. They lied.

[tclancy]

Please do not inquire about the location of the beef.

[macintux]

I fear that reference may be too dated for this site's dominant demographics.

[tclancy]

Agreed, but I had to let it leave the nest on its own. I am of a mind if I make one person laugh a lot it’s better than a polite twitter from the unwashed masses.

[hansvm]

The beef is in the fries actually -- well, beef substitute -- they have a wheat-derived beef flavoring used to make the fries taste richer. The jury is still out on whatever is between the burger buns.