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It's quite easy to blame it on Larry Ellison, a self-centric egotistical individual. Still, when you actually look at what it meant, many other tech giants wou
by dataker 11y ago
It's quite easy to blame it on Larry Ellison, a self-centric egotistical individual.
Still, when you actually look at what it meant, many other tech giants would be severely affected by Aaron's Law.
Only difference is their CEOs are better sociopaths at crafting a 'nice guy personality'.
- hurin 11y agoIn part I think the difference is the user/customer-base. For Google or Facebook their CEO's actually have to pay lip-service to user-data-privacy and pretend to be outraged at government surveillance because it would hurt them economically not to do so. For Oracle's customer-base those concerns just might not mean as much, so Ellison gets to float around ideas like National ID Cards (https://web.archive.org/web/20141224053509/http://archive.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/10/47788 https://web.archive.org/web/20141224053509/http://archive.wi...) their big corporate subscribers probably wouldn't have minded.