As the initial dust settles over the “indefinite” suspension of comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show over comments he made about MAGA fans' reaction of the shooting of far-right extremist Charlie Kirk, the onus now falls on Disney/ABC for the next move.According to a report from NBC News, the exe...
Microsoft is worse than Google, Oracle is worse too. I mean yeah, boycott Google, but fuck Microsoft and Oracle extra hard.
Oracle takes from businesses as much as they can. I consider that fair play. What makes them worse than Google? The TikTok deal?
There’s that, but also Larry Ellison is a fucking monster and massive Trump booster. The Paramount deal that got rid of Colbert was due to the Ellison family owning Skydance, which just acquired Paramount.
Also Oracle is an enemy of OpenSource, they acquired Sun and MySQL and OpenOffice, then attempted to destroy them. Oracle can rot in hell.
I didn’t mean to leave them out, I wasn’t making an exhaustive list, I just thought of what everyone probably still uses and pays for (Google, YouTube, Amazon prime, etc).
Microsoft is all cloud and enterprise now, they are much harder to directly boycott effectively by consumers. But yes, avoid them too.
I know this is Lemmy where we’re all on Linux already, but a lot of people out there still use Windows, and that’s a massive source of income and control for Microsoft that people could stop using. At the very least they could cancel OneDrive.