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Well, the tactic worked for Oracle, and I would assume some of those lawyers landed at other SV companies. Although, to be fair to Oracle, they didn't do dark
by protomyth 6y ago
Well, the tactic worked for Oracle, and I would assume some of those lawyers landed at other SV companies. Although, to be fair to Oracle, they didn't do dark pattern stuff when I used them.
- ashtonkem 6y agoThe problem for Dropbox is that social media makes these strong arm tactics harder, as the victims have an opportunity to put the company on blast publicly and trash their reputation. 20 years ago companies could do this repeatedly for a longer period of time before they’d gain a reputation for being scummy.
- 908B64B197 6y agoBut then look at how their "cloud" is doing. Is anyone anywhere in SV building new products on top of Oracle?
- protomyth 6y agoOracle isn't an SV focused company. There is plenty of money in all those non-tech businesses to be a big winner.