meshugga

those who don't understand the memes are doomed to be them

Both of which paulg didn't do.

Having a personal website with contact information is not URL cloaking or plaintext onfuscation. Those TOS are ludicrous to begin with, but are not by any reasonable understanding written to say that you can not have a personal website with other social media.

It's not what the TOS say though.

Code obfuscation + blackmail negotiations ... awesome company to do business with.

Rural Austria? Please provide a company name ... or at least first and last character :)

It's not a coincidence, no, because Oracle can provide support guarantees in a way a Postgres contractor can not.

This is also a factor for independent developers (who build airline reservation systems) who need to choose a RDBMS for their product - they'll choose oracle, because ... Oracle can provide support guarantees in a way a Postgres contractor can not.

Which makes Oracle not a different class of product than Postgres, but a different class of support for the product. (which could be considered part of the product, so ... maybe you're right)

I don't take his side in making money off of intellectual property that doesn't belong to him.

Torrent sharing is one thing. Selling access to downloadable material that doesn't belong to you quite another.

Hacking is finding the exception to the rule. No more, no less.