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not_kurt_godel 3 hours ago

For those who might not know the reference: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/17/bryan-cantrill/:

> Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing 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.

> — Bryan Cantrill

skeledrew an hour ago | parent [-]

404 on that link.

dunder_cat 11 minutes ago | parent [-]

A more direct source (possibly the original source?) I know of is a YouTube video entitled "LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos" which detailed how the Solaris operating system got freed from Oracle after the Sun acquisition.

The whole hour talk is worth a watch, even when passively doing other stuff. It is a neat history of Solaris and its toolchain mixed with the inter-organizational politics.

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc

Direct link to lawnmower quotes (~38.5 minute mark): https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2307