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Ah, so they meant avoiding 'downstream license complications' they don't cause.

• baobun 3y ago
  I wouldn't expect Oracle to have a license complication with itself...
  • dijit 3y ago
    it's mostly just hypocritical. If everyone acted like Oracle; there would be no mysql users. Which is the point being made.
    • snapcaster 3y ago
      I don't understand your comment. Oracle is hypocritical because like every company they take everything they can and give the minimum they have to? which part is hypocritical?
      • dijit 3y ago
        I'm incredulous that you don't understand, but I'll humour you. Let's see; If I giving away a product because I think it's for the betterment of mankind, and definitely not an attempt to rug-pull or anything like that: no, just for developer good will. Then I am offered a free service, and I do not use it for fear that there could potentially be some rugpulling, despite having a reputation for that myself: and the project I'm considering having no reputation for that. Then the pretense in which I "give away" my software, is morally dubious. I would never permit myself to be in the same situation as I need others to be in order for my product to be successful. MySQL/Virtualbox/Java etc;
        • alexey-salmin 3y ago
          This still doesn't make any sense to me. In order to use free software you need to make all your software free, is it that? I have no sympathy for oracle or their products but I fail to see the hypocrisy here. I think oracle is pretty consistent in their position over the years.
          • dijit 3y ago
            If I give you software, and tell you to trust me - but I will not use software given because I do not trust: surely I can read something into that. Clearly Oracle are aware of the danger that they themselves ask people to ignore.
            • baobun 3y ago
              Business is business. I wouldn't call Zuck a hypocrite for not exposing himself on TikTok. (There may be other reasons to do so but that's not here nor there) You are also committing the classic mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison.
        • snapcaster 2y ago
          What are you talking about? this is a COMPANY NOT A PERSON. Who is "I" in your example? The point of Oracle is to maximize it's profits, it appears to be doing that via whatever means are available. This is not hypocrisy or anything like it
• disintegore 3y ago
  This is a slam dunk for free software. Even Oracle can't deny the benefits.