- he'd happier destroy 10 or 100 million man-hours of good effort for a couple hundred-K of sales. see Solaris. - trying to assert IP rights on an API. see java

- he'd happier destroy 10 or 100 million man-hours of good effort for a couple hundred-K of sales. see Solaris. - trying to assert IP rights on an API. see java lawsuit. - uses vendor lock-in to sell an inferior product that a better replacement is free (like postresql, mysql, etc.) Oh yes, I think Oracle is evil, in a way worse than the worst years of M$. And larry ... is clearly the responsible party. In my ethos, good capitalism is good itself and for everyone. Wise leaders play for the "long game" and this benefits them, their shareholders, and everyone else. This was the pattern of Sun. In particular Sun, even in the years when the UNIX wars were not very nice. larry (and bill) are simply diseased vultures who trade short term personal gain for mass global loss. Someday, while old larry will be fine, his shareholders will have nothing but a bag of sh*t.