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dijityesterday at 4:22 AM1 replyview on HN

“not my money” thinking will always indirectly lead to bad things for you on a long enough timeline.

Edit: this got flagged, but if you end up in an unprofitable position because you chose Oracle as a vendor and they squeezed your company so hard they need to choose between paying you (either via a raise or via actually employing you) or staying with a vendor thats squeezing them; they will choose the latter, as its short term cheaper.


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duxuptoday at 12:48 AM

I think you can take it too far and spend a lot of time worrying about nickel and dimes for someone who doesn't care... github is unlikely to eat a business and if it does you made some bad choices.

Otherwise you make the call, maybe the company changes their business practices for the worse, maybe they don't ... it's not like you can ever be sure about that.