Bryan Cantrill (formerly Sun, then worked for Oracle, now working elsewhere) talks about Oracle in his interesting talk here: http://smartos.org/2011/12/15/for

Bryan Cantrill (formerly Sun, then worked for Oracle, now working elsewhere) talks about Oracle in his interesting talk here: http://smartos.org/2011/12/15/fork-yeah-the-rise-and-development-of-illumos-2/ http://smartos.org/2011/12/15/fork-yeah-the-rise-and-develop... He compares Oracle to a lawnmower - if you stick your hand in a mower, it will cut your hand off. Oracle is simple in the way that a mower is simple - a mower cuts what is put in front of the blade. Oracle wants money from whoever they can get it from.