I’ve been thinking about what it would look like if Oracle bought TikTok, but I am not sure if they will go with a per device or per core licensing model

@jerry Oracle quarterly Critical Patch Updates now have to be dance-announced by their PSIRT. So… it’s probably a wash tbh

@jerry (per core) * device plus surcharge per device back-payable after compliance audit, plus audit costs

@jerry we will look back and think flash in a pan - likely we will see lots of disruption

@jerry "We've converted Tiktok to Solaris"

@jerry whatever makes One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison more money, I guess.

@Rairii @jerry That's how you bill more without them being able to complain

@Rairii @mathieui @jerry I get the sense you’ve never had to deal with Oracle before

@jerry per post/half for skipped ones

@jerry they’re gonna ban the hashtag #reverseengineering (does TikTok have hashtags?)

@jerry Per core plus a device sharing charge per additional user.

@jerry Knowing Oracle... they'd probably do per user/device/core/hour-per-day

@jerry I'm sorry, you only licensed the use on your cell phone from 2200-0600

@jerry Per dance licensing model is my guess.

@lerg you keep that up and Larry is going to make you chief revenue officer

@jerry Power units

@danielcornell I think that just triggered some long forgotten PTSD

@jerry Yeah for me as well. Sorry, but you kinda started it 😀

@danielcornell @jerry This is the opportunity for dragonball like power levels we all have been waiting for!!!

@cR0w @jerry isn’t that how every Java dev reacts to a Null Pointer Deref?

@jerry trick question, they would change the app so that all interactions would happen through sending PDFs that were filled out from a master template with very awkward options and a UI so ugly that it makes your eyes bleed, but in order to "go with the times", they will somehow string blockchain into it, and you simply pay more the sooner you'd like to have your PDF added to the chain.

@jerry why not both

@jerry It's Oracle

@jerry Does that come with a yacht?

@lerg @jerry With a fractional share of Stargate only.

@jerry @buherator pixel/second licensing!

@jerry is this being considered?

@Malcriada yes, it’s a likely outcome

@jerry

Application licensing will be per core, but with different pricing for performance and efficiency cores. Obviously you’ll need to license every core in your phone, because you can’t know which core will be in use at any moment.

Skipping videos will be charged per skip. You can commit to a number of skips per month to get a lower price per skip.