<story><title>“Stop reverse engineering our code”</title><url>https://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/no_you_really_can_t</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kabdib</author><text>Wow. Really?&lt;p&gt;This single blog post is strong evidence for why you should never, ever buy an Oracle product, and if you are running anything written by them, why you should plan to migrate away.&lt;p&gt;Now, the culture of consultants in the Oracle sphere of influence is pretty toxic and money-grubbing. I can imagine companies being badgered into paying security weasels big bucks to analyze software with tools that cough up a zillion false positives, whereupon the weasel looks like a hero and is paid a bunch of cash, the customer panics and demands that Oracle fix a pile of non-existent vulns, and some department buried inside Oracle doesn&amp;#x27;t know how to deal. Whereupon the weasel skates off to another company to run the same scam: rinse, repeat, and this blog post.&lt;p&gt;In which case Oracle should simply call it out: &amp;quot;Please don&amp;#x27;t send us crappy automated scanning tool reports from the shitty security weasel consultant you hired because those reports are useless, and the same weasels have been sending identical ones in, monthly, for &lt;i&gt;years&lt;/i&gt;, and you are being ripped off.&amp;quot; But Oracle never passes up the opportunity to express contempt for its customers, nor can it admit to being wrong.&lt;p&gt;Better to avoid that whole ecosystem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Natsu</author><text>This is hardly a first.  Oracle stuffs a bad, misspelled little poem in their DB protocols, not for any technical reason, but purely to attempt to extend copyright protection by forcing people to violate their copyrights to be compatible with Oracle.&lt;p&gt;You can find a copy of it here:  &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dacut.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2008&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;oracle-poetry.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dacut.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2008&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;oracle-poetry.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Note the copyright statement on the mispelled, 3-line poem with no literary merit whatsoever (which happens to be longer than the poem itself):&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The preceding key is copyrighted by Oracle Corporation.
Dupl@ication of this key is not allowed without permission
from Oracl1e Corporation. Copyright 2003 Oracle Corporation.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of this is to abuse the copyright on the above &amp;quot;poem&amp;quot; in order to prevent people from implementing the Oracle DB protocols.  I guess they hope that everyone is ignorant of Sega v. Accolade?  Even that trick of theirs is copied from elsewhere:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sega_v._Accolade&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sega_v._Accolade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  Reading that deliberate misspelling makes me wonder if I could start &amp;quot;Oracl1e Corporation&amp;quot; and give people permission to violate this?  Sure, it&amp;#x27;d be a ridiculous cheat, but so is the sham copyright on their worthless poem.</text></comment>
<story><title>“Stop reverse engineering our code”</title><url>https://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/no_you_really_can_t</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kabdib</author><text>Wow. Really?&lt;p&gt;This single blog post is strong evidence for why you should never, ever buy an Oracle product, and if you are running anything written by them, why you should plan to migrate away.&lt;p&gt;Now, the culture of consultants in the Oracle sphere of influence is pretty toxic and money-grubbing. I can imagine companies being badgered into paying security weasels big bucks to analyze software with tools that cough up a zillion false positives, whereupon the weasel looks like a hero and is paid a bunch of cash, the customer panics and demands that Oracle fix a pile of non-existent vulns, and some department buried inside Oracle doesn&amp;#x27;t know how to deal. Whereupon the weasel skates off to another company to run the same scam: rinse, repeat, and this blog post.&lt;p&gt;In which case Oracle should simply call it out: &amp;quot;Please don&amp;#x27;t send us crappy automated scanning tool reports from the shitty security weasel consultant you hired because those reports are useless, and the same weasels have been sending identical ones in, monthly, for &lt;i&gt;years&lt;/i&gt;, and you are being ripped off.&amp;quot; But Oracle never passes up the opportunity to express contempt for its customers, nor can it admit to being wrong.&lt;p&gt;Better to avoid that whole ecosystem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rm_-rf_slash</author><text>I went to a prominent tech school that adopted an Oracle platform for student course management in my last few years. I won&amp;#x27;t mince words: it was a piece of shit, and my school&amp;#x27;s administrators ate shit by agreeing to a contract that forbid them from making any changes to Oracle&amp;#x27;s broken system. Now I work in college administration and we have to deal with the very same pile of junk.&lt;p&gt;Someone once told me that Larry Ellison is the biggest asshole in Silicon Valley, and also the richest, so he must be doing something right. The same could be said for John D Rockefeller and Standard Oil.  Is the world we have the world we want?</text></comment>