Missed the list? I’m doing a 30 day geek challenge, and I’m neither here nor there…
I don’t mean to sound like a hipster, but I’ve been hating Sony before hating Sony became all the rage
I really dislike Sony. Recently? Due to their frivolous lawsuits against ordinary citizens who enjoy modifying their property.
I’m talking about both GeoHot and failoverfl0w. A pair of kids who did the equivalent of taking out the radio of their car and replacing it with a shinier one, and getting sued by the car maker for doing so. Because God Forbid add functionality to hardware you already own. This might sound far-fetched, but if the lawsuit had failed, I wouldn’t doubt their efforts to try it.
But I’m not pissed at them for these lawsuits, I’ve been pissed at them from way before that. Not many hold a grudge this long, but I’ve hated Sony since their Rootkit fiasco, in which they planted a virus in music CDs, and upon inserting them on poor, innocent Windows machines, they’d destroy the ability to burn CDs. Because pirating music is the only use for burning CDs, right?
So, no PS3, no PSP, no Sony Music, Sony Movies or any other Sony Stupid Piece of Shit That Doesn’t Frakking Work. (NSFW, Language)
Second Place for Most Undesirable Company? Oracle.
I agree about both Sony and Oracle and in the same order. Sony insisted that I give price paid plus other purchase information for gifts I got on Christmas! I told them I wouldn’t and haven’t!
I don’t use any of their equipment other than a walkman my daughter got me and will only use that till it wears out due to respect for my family.
Oracle I live without and am grateful that Open Office was forked. MySQL future doesn’t look so bright either though drizzle seems to be coming along nicely.
Oh well, I am so thankful for Open Source. So many products and much faster correction of bugs.