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> open source is not always the solution and reverse engineering something, consumes way more energy for the problems it actually solves. You think customers a
by jnbiche 11y ago
> open source is not always the solution and reverse engineering something, consumes way more energy for the problems it actually solves.
You think customers are reverse engineering Oracle products for fun? They're doing it because there's a problem somewhere, they've filed a bug report and not got a satisfactory result, and so they have to go pay an expensive consultant to try and track down the problem for them with no source code.
Even if none of the other arguments for open source were persuasive, this situation with Oracle alone would be enough to convince many people of the wisdom of choosing an open source vendor.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoWhat's wrong with reversing for fun? It's how progress of technology happens.
- tremon 11y agoYour boss is unlikely to pay you for it. The companies using Oracle software are usually not in software (database) development themselves, so there's no business incentive to pay you for having "fun" with expensive software.
- jnbiche 11y agoI think reversing for fun is great! But it's pretty unlikely that Oracle customers are doing it for this reason. Instead, I suspect their reversing is borne of desperation.