Comment by HPsquared
1 day ago
Am I right in thinking this resembles the the "bracelet scam"? A person (in this case a big company) gives you something, acts like it's free, then demands money.
1 day ago
Am I right in thinking this resembles the the "bracelet scam"? A person (in this case a big company) gives you something, acts like it's free, then demands money.
There's are that are allowed and there are uses that are not allowed by the free license. Not sure how this is different from companies offering e.g. a free database, as long as you don't use it to offer hosting and compete with them.
It's not, it's just generally a deceptive business practice. And while others may be doing it in good faith, it's very very very well established by now that Oracle is not. They very specifically do things this way, knowing that it will make it impossible for large orgs to police this, and can then extract money from the org, whether it's really owed or not.
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Just saying that "free for certain purposes only with a possible lawsuit for using it in a way we don't like" isn't exclusively an Oracle invention.