| .... that Oracle, much hated as a result of their own fairly consistent bad
behaviour, had to pay people to say nice things about them, while Google have
attracted the interest and support of people just by behaving nicely. Same
with the closed, proprietary monoliths like M$, or now increasingly Apple,
apart from a few misguided, delusional fanbois, few think that either has
behaved nicely, along with a few more like Sony, and so, if and when they need
it, they have to pay for support, while the likes of Samsung, Motorola (now part
of Google) and HTC, among many others, have behaved nicely in their markets,
treated their customers fairly, cooperated well with the FOSS community, and
generally conducted their businesses in a competitive but ethical manner. It
is quite noticeable that the corporate behaviour tends to align with whether a
company uses and supports FOSS, or otherwise. Even though software freedom is
irrelevant to many of the current legal battles, it does seem to figure
prominently in corporate behaviour, and it makes them friends, some of whom are
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