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UK.gov issues internal 'ditch Oracle NOW' edict to end pricey addiction

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Re: Oracle is only part of the problem

This reminds me of a bit out of Good Omens:

Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine

1) didn't work,

2) didn't do what the expensive advertisements said,

3) electrocuted the immediate neighborhood,

4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches.

Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: "Learn, guys..."

Oracle probably employs the same people (for licensing and/or selling your soul. My understanding is that they're roughly equivalent)

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