Ask HN: Is Oracle that much more evil than other big companies?

Every time I see that Oracle release a new product, even open source comments are full of hate for Oracle. But I don't see similar reactions to other big companies, such as Microsoft. So is Oracle really that much worse than the other big companies, or do the other companies just have better marketing targeting the developer?

as ex-Oracle, likely no more evil than the FAANG (or whatever they're calling themselves), but those who hate it, really hate it

I don't think that it's more "evil" than the other big "evil" companies (and there are a few companies that are at least an order of magnitude more evil), but that it became such well before most of the others. OG evil, so to speak.

Oracle has also spent decades picking fights with large parts of the dev community, and so has built up a lot more resentment than many other companies.

"Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' - lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle"