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Confusing everyone about java license situation is another example.

I think lawnmower metaphor never was accurate or helped to get it.

Oracle is an alligator or a snake. A reptile. If you move, it will probably eat you alive. It wants to eat you, or part of you.

It also lives in the waterhole, hoarding an essential resource. Not guarding or developing it, just sitting there.

It is ancient and will never change.

It's not alligator's fault for being predator. It is it's nature



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