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mikhailfranco Sep 6, 2023 | on: Largest local government body in Europe goes under amid… | context
Laughing Larry buys another flotilla of carbon fiber hydrofoil catamaran yachts. This is Oracle's MO. Surprised they found yet another sucker in this day and age. The classic Bryan Cantrill diagnosis is more than decade old. Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of your lawnmower.. |
And remember,
> Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle. — Brian Cantrill (https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m1s)
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> I actually think that it does a dis-service to not go to Nazi allegory because if I don't use Nazi allegory when referring to Oracle there's some critical understanding that I have left on the table […] in fact as I have said before I emphatically believe that if you have to explain the Nazis to someone who had never heard of World War 2 but was an Oracle customer there's a very good chance that you would explain the Nazis in Oracle allegory. — also Brian Cantrill (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fvDDPaIoY&t=24m)