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That's quite silly. VirtualBox is great, and so is MySQL. They're also both OSS, so no lawyers in the sense you're implying.


Then you don't know what you're talking about, and are ignorant of the risks of using VirtualBox.

That VirtualBox extension pack? That aint free... well, it is for personal use only because they're not shaking individuals down. However, Oracle watches what domains download that extension pack, and sues companies when too many employees download it.

You can see that in this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/d1ttzp/oracle_is_...

And this article also addresses the risks of dealing with Horracle.

And a company I worked for had dealings with them as well. Again, Horracle played dirty and did bullshit, except over Horracle DB itself.


You're basically saying something that isn't free, isn't free.




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