> Virtualbox itself has been somewhat closed down / restricted over the course of Oracle's tenure.
How so? VirtualBox was GPL-licensed before the acquisition and it remains so today. The extensions pack was always under a proprietary license.
How so? VirtualBox was GPL-licensed before the acquisition and it remains so today. The extensions pack was always under a proprietary license.
Well that's interesting. I recently went from free virtualbox to a paid vmware workstation license because of some frustrations with vbox, and found that vmware is not better or worse but just frustrating in different ways (e.g. clipboard sync doesn't have a directional option and shared folders are harder to set up, but usb passthrough is much more stable). Performance is identical for various workloads as near as I can tell, except that vmware's VM displays freeze for 0.5 seconds every time you focus/unfocus one (virtualbox is seamless). If vmware went forwards compared to that, one would have to have been crazy to pay if you can just apt install virtualbox
Yes, while I'm not sure if the actual terms of the license changed, enforcement changed very much.
With SUN ist was "Of course, you can personally install it on your work computer and use it for work. Only if you deploy it to your fleet of computers please pay us."
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Cost of revenue for penny-ante fluff would have been orders of magnitude greater than actual revenue. Goodwill and other benefits substantively greater.
Blaming Sun's demise on Virtualbox largess is ludicrous on its face.