Oracle is a shady company. They do this cute little trick where they give out free software, but if it ever appears in a corporate environment and phones home, that’s no longer free and they shake down the company the person they tricked works at. So Sharon in department X brings her laptop from home and hops on the company wifi and virtualbox phones home, now her employer is being sued. They do lot of other shit too but a general rule in the IT world is to stay the fuck away from oracle whenever possible.
That’s not quite true. Virtualbox is free but the extension pack is not. It says on the website that it’s under a different license.
Just don’t get it from the website but from a distro’s repos instead and you’ll be fine. Distros usually patch out telemetry as well.
But yeah, Oracle and similar schemes are why software installation is so restricted on corporate devices. It’s basically ransomware, freeware that people are willing to sue over.
Oracle is a shady company. They do this cute little trick where they give out free software, but if it ever appears in a corporate environment and phones home, that’s no longer free and they shake down the company the person they tricked works at. So Sharon in department X brings her laptop from home and hops on the company wifi and virtualbox phones home, now her employer is being sued. They do lot of other shit too but a general rule in the IT world is to stay the fuck away from oracle whenever possible.
That’s not quite true. Virtualbox is free but the extension pack is not. It says on the website that it’s under a different license.
Just don’t get it from the website but from a distro’s repos instead and you’ll be fine. Distros usually patch out telemetry as well.
But yeah, Oracle and similar schemes are why software installation is so restricted on corporate devices. It’s basically ransomware, freeware that people are willing to sue over.
RIP Sun
I didn’t know this, but Oracle is shity in so many ways.