This is just the weekly Tesla hate thread. You will see this sort of negativity around essentially every Tesla-related news item. It's actually an improvement over the near-daily nature of these threads from earlier this year.
To answer your question, this changes nothing. He's been a major shareholder for a long time and now he's 1 out of 11 board members.
I'm a fan of Tesla. And it's not about Tesla now. It's about Larry Elison and Oracle. Oracle is the definition of evil in IT. Tesla has a lot of fans among IT people. IT people hate Oracle, and with good reasons. Read around here for examples.
I hate Oracle too. But I agree, it probably will have little to no impact.
Still, just thinking about Larry Elison makes me like Tesla a little bit less. Brr...
> You will see this sort of negativity around essentially every Tesla-related news item.
Not really. From the far end of any spectrum, someone in the middle looks like they're on the other side. To anyone else, it looks like there's plenty of Kool-Aid and astroturf all around, and the tone police are usually the worst offenders.
To answer your question, this changes nothing. He's been a major shareholder for a long time and now he's 1 out of 11 board members.