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SOLAR_FIELDS a day ago

I do love how the software world has the caricature of a comic book villain in Larry Ellison

glaslong 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s

smegger001 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I always thought of him as if he was angling to be a bond vilian but thats kind of a potayto, potahto thing

croon 17 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, he owns 98% of Hawaii's sixth largest (volcano) island, which certainly fits the motif.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C4%81na%CA%BBi