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They've largely left the licensing for Virtual Box alone, but I also find it difficult to trust Oracle.
by pnutjam 6y ago
They've largely left the licensing for Virtual Box alone, but I also find it difficult to trust Oracle.
- marcosdumay 6y agoVirtual Box is open core, and the free version is slowly losing features. Ok, they didn't go threatening to sue everybody that ever installed it. That's exceeding my expectations already, but it's not a neutral stance.
- selfhoster11 6y agoCan you point to some of the free features they've taken back? I have been using VirtualBox nearly every day at work for the past 4 years, and my experience is that if anything, it's improved in quality and free features since the Oracle acquisition. I do realise how toxic it is to have the proprietary extension pack as the source of advanced features, but the only thing that's I really, really need from that is USB 2.0. It's not like new features are even extension pack exclusives either, most of them land in the open core from the start.
- marcosdumay 6y agoUSB 2.0 itself was once at the free tier (after installing some extra stuff). But I do agree it has become more stable and faster.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoThey may have left virtualbox proper alone, but they're happy to leverage the guest extensions: https://www.theregister.com/2019/10/04/oracle_virtualbox_merula/ https://www.theregister.com/2019/10/04/oracle_virtualbox_mer...