Anaconda’s hidden license for institutions is a dark pattern time bomb for scientific computing.
When I talked to them four years ago, they agreed we were good to use it for free, no problem.
The dollar figure they're asking for would make it the single most expensive software product we would be licensing in our enterprise, by a lot. The deadline is absurdly soon for such a big deal. And they opened discussion in an incredibly hostile manner and have made no attempt to work with us.
So, I'm helping lead the effort to completely purge them from our ecosystem. On the one hand, I'm sad because their stuff is pretty good. On the other hand, their behavior is bad and the product isn't better by the amount they're asking for.
Good riddance.
With $$ for unlicensed period too?
Wow this is so deliberately ambiguous about universities with more than 200 employees. Shameful.
TLDR - we are working to clean up this language to leave it clear that educational institutions are exempt, and that these commercial terms do not apply to third-party channels hosted at anaconda.org (which includes conda-forge).
Show us don’t tell us. I’d love to not have to continue the rip and replace job ahead.
Edit: this linkedin response sums it up well. Not certain what guarantee you will make to research institutions’ leaders that is going to lift those blocks.
However, please tell this to your sales/legal teams: the nature of their approaches has been somewhat poisoning the well. If leadership’s first encounter with a piece of software is: "you are in legal trouble", the reaction you're going to get is: "remove and block that legally dangerous piece of software at once", rather than "oh yes we should license it". We do buy licenses for software, we view it as giving back, but how the offering is first presented matters.