A dubious Top 30 list from Slate makes for good reading.There are all the usual suspects and some that made me pause to think if they were evil enough to make the cut.
“Oracle’s mission to copyright APIs is a terrifying example of the worst kind of tech issue: something totally boring and esoteric and simultaneously incredibly important. Oracle’s theory is bonkers, and has been propped up by a huge, expensive, shadowy astroturf campaign. It takes a lot to make me feel like Google is being victimized by a bully, but Oracle managed it.” —Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing and the Electronic Frontier Foundation
I have some grudging respect for Oracle that are even able to bully Google. Maybe this is the best we can expect for checks and balances.
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