> I don't understand why Oracle is hated more on HN than other large companies.
My personal opinion is that HN and the tech/genera community treat it as more as being a lawyer company (or having a very large amount of lawyers in general) and actively hostile to many aspects of tech.
It has very Microsoft-y vibes (minus Github/any goodwill that Microsoft has ever earned or past nostalgia like windows xp/7) while at the same time as @trentor said, they killed sun so they actively harmed the nostalgia aspects/goodwill (ironic how both of it is about Operating systems and for all its faults of Microsoft, they have handled the nostalgia part much better than Oracle)
Larry Ellison is the closest thing the world has to a real James Bond villain. He has his own volcanic island, thinks himself a martial artist, spends most of his corporate money on litigation rather than innovation, and did who knows what to scrub the internet of news surrounding the litany of noise complaints from his private flying at all hours of the night (and I recall he just bought some airfields that complained too much, but that was a long time ago and I may be misremembering).
Oracle is detested in the Javascript community because having inherited the trademark for Javascript, it did nothing to develop or use the language for decades but continued to aggressively enforce its ownership rights.
Oracle has not monetized ownership of the trademark and apparently had no business reason for this course of action.
On the face of it, it is just ugly. Much like Ellison's own surgically-altered features.
My personal opinion is that HN and the tech/genera community treat it as more as being a lawyer company (or having a very large amount of lawyers in general) and actively hostile to many aspects of tech.
It has very Microsoft-y vibes (minus Github/any goodwill that Microsoft has ever earned or past nostalgia like windows xp/7) while at the same time as @trentor said, they killed sun so they actively harmed the nostalgia aspects/goodwill (ironic how both of it is about Operating systems and for all its faults of Microsoft, they have handled the nostalgia part much better than Oracle)