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Originally Posted by gaming_mouse
what is this mythical world you speak of, in which Java is the hip, coveted language people practice in their free time?
They don't practice it in their free time. They practice compiling .jar files on work time and then when the **** hits the fan, everyone will look at me since I'm a negligent boss.
The other day, they asked me to deploy some "free" software on the server. I had no idea what it was, but I just know they worked on it for 3 months. While installing it, I read the EULA, which had some cryptic paragraph about collecting usage data, and if after exceeding some bandwidth limit, charges kick in.
I asked my coworkers about this and they all gave me a blank stare. Five minutes of research revealed that a) the bandwidth is stupid low and b) the pricing tier quickly escalates to Oracle-level pricing.
I wish I could say I got off on nuking this and giving everyone a lecture on stupidly signing up for crap without reading the EULA before investing months of person time into it, but I can't.
All I signed up for was some database help. I have no idea how it got so out of hand.