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Comment by bigiain

6 years ago

> there is no conceivable reason that Oracle would want to threaten me with a lawsuit.

Money. Anecdotally that's the primary reason Oracle do anything.

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eitland  6 years ago

If anyone thinks this is hyperbole :

I worked for a tiny startup (>2 devs full time) where Oracle tried to extract money from us because we used MariaDB on AWS.

If you think this sounds ridiculous you probably got it right.

(Why? Because someone inexperienced with Oracle had filled out the form while downloading the mySQL client.)

  • eitland  6 years ago

    Re-reading my comment in daylight I realize I got one detail almost exactly wrong: we were always <= 2 developers, but it seems everyone understood the point anyway - we were tiny, but not too tiny for Oracles licensing department.