Re: (OT) Oracle, as bad as Microsoft

On Jan 23, 2025 at 5:10:29 PM EST, "CrudeSausage" <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 1/23/25 4:47 PM, RonB wrote:

Ellison and Gates are cut from the same cloth — I'm posting due to the
Oracle might be a "good" corporation to take over Microsoft post...
 
What Ellison wants...
 
    Oracle CEO Larry Ellison envisions a future where AI revolutionizes
    healthcare by detecting early-stage cancer and creating personalized mRNA
    vaccine therapies tailored to individual needs.
 
    Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle, has ties to the CIA through the
    company’s origins.
 
    Oracle’s journey began with a project known as "Project Oracle,"
    partially funded to develop a database for the CIA.
 
    The company’s name was inspired by this very contract, with "Oracle"
    serving as the codename for the CIA's groundbreaking database initiative.
 
And NSA was involved in getting Google off the ground. Gates' father (I
believe) was a CIA connected lawyer. So there really aren't any "good guys"
here.

 
I saw that a few days ago, but I didn't bother to post it. I'm at a
point where I just don't trust any corporation whatsoever to do the
right thing.

Corporations "do the right thing" every day. But it generally will be The
Right Thing for the corporation.  What you or I think is generally irrelevant.
 

Unless - of course - if what the corporation wants to do is so
absurd/wrong/immoral/whatever that it generates massive protests/bad
press/declining stock prices/etc.  Only then will a corporation change a
decision.

Remember when Apple wanted to scan everyone's photos for child porn?
Certainly a noble idea on paper, but in reality was a huge privacy intrusion.
 After LOADS of bad press, Apple wisely backed down.