Maybe in some cases. This particular company at the time had revenue of $5M, with a much lower net, so $2M want even feasible.

I would love to see more of things like this.

Dollar Store might be better, but I’ll take what I can get.

Hopefully 6ft under when someone finally gets to him.

The number of clients I’ve worked with who are “stuck” with Oracle passes the 50% mark and I’m just one person.

One company said that Oracle offered them a de-obfuscation tool to migrate elsewhere for a mere $2M. Absurd.

Fuck Oracle.

Nice.

Part of me wants to say “good”.

I realize all the nuances and negative implications, but…I don’t know. Maybe America needs to be godsmacked a little.

Note: My thoughts change hourly on this so take this with a boulder of salt.

That’s great and all, but I think that’s currently the least of our worries.

So no empathy for Elon Musk and his crybaby butthurt feelings? Fine by me!

I agree. I hate using a mouse and generally avoid it, and still the productivity gains I get from using something like VS Code versus Vim with plugins to the max are impossible to ignore.

When I’m juggling like 3 development contracts at once, it’s dumb of me to not use every little gain in productivity possible. I don’t have time to spend a day recreating a plugin to my liking in Vim when something already exists that gets me 99% of the way there. I don’t care about the extra RAM use because I have plenty of that.

I think some people just like to die on this hill out of principle, and that’s whatever, more power to them.

The suffering is the point.

The yellow napkins

This is what I’m hoping for. It just takes Player 2ing a couple of them to strike fear in all of them and simultaneously remind people that we hold the power.

There is no real downside to the unliving of a billionaire. Only upside.

Why do you think they’ll follow any sort of law or rule? Legitimate question.

They can tell everyone they’re fired, change the locks/codes. Shutdown emails etc. and there is literally nobody that will stop them.

Except us with weaponry.

I love this. I love this so much.

Must not be looking very hard because they’ve been all over my general lemmy feed every few days and span multiple states, cities, and even countries.

On the protest side, Americans are turning out in droves across the nation regularly. At capitol buildings and Tesla centers and more. Our media just doesn’t over it because they’re trying to squash the efforts.

Despite that, I’m still making plans to leave the country.

They start being hunted down.