I think Oracle is/was run by salespeople. They wanted you to pay a fortune for a database. Even if you could use a free database, they wanted you to pay a fortu

I think Oracle is/was run by salespeople. They wanted you to pay a fortune for a database. Even if you could use a free database, they wanted you to pay a fortune for theirs. Because theirs could do a barrel roll and a hand-stand at the same time. Then of course when sales went down, you can always threat and extort your current customers: https://archive.is/Tbvw0 https://archive.is/Tbvw0 Microsoft just wanted to protect their windows thingy and pretend the internet didn't exists. They couldn't so they tried to embugger it. Once they had dominating market share with IE6, they simply said they weren't making money on IE and weren't going to update it any more. So they left it bug ridden for 5 years until the next release. Google shows up, with all their bondage and evil intentions carefully wrapped in satin and free beer on tap. But now the beer is finished and the satin is worn out. Everybody is hungover and tied up. The sounds coming from the next room is like something is being strapped on.