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n_n OP wrote on February 19, 2020 at 9:15 AM

#165,346

Oracle has long been known as a technology supplier to the U.S. government; in a statement in September the company said the Central Intelligence Agency was the first customer to use the company's database software decades ago. Former CIA chief Leon Panetta has held a seat on Oracle's board since 2015, and in 2016 Oracle CEO Safra Catz joined President Trump's transition team.

masque wrote on February 19, 2020 at 9:37 AM (edited on February 19, 2020 at 10:05 AM)

#165,347

I don't know why, but the mere mention of Oracle always uniquely disturbs me on some visceral level.

EDIT: The latest in Oracle-being-awful:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/oracle-copied-amazons-api-was-that-copyright-infringement/

Imagine going to court to set the godawful precedent that re-implementing an API for the purpose of interoperability is copyright infringement while you yourself are re-implementing other people's APIs for the purpose of interoperability.