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Because some students (or teachers), not knowing any better, downloaded it / are using it on the university network. The university has no idea who and no real
by gavinsyancey 1y ago
Because some students (or teachers), not knowing any better, downloaded it / are using it on the university network. The university has no idea who and no real way to get them to stop.
- HPsquared 1y agoAm I right in thinking this resembles the the "bracelet scam"? A person (in this case a big company) gives you something, acts like it's free, then demands money.
- lmz 1y agoThere's are that are allowed and there are uses that are not allowed by the free license. Not sure how this is different from companies offering e.g. a free database, as long as you don't use it to offer hosting and compete with them.
- lyu07282 1y ago[flagged]
- lmz 1y agoJust saying that "free for certain purposes only with a possible lawsuit for using it in a way we don't like" isn't exclusively an Oracle invention.
- tsimionescu 1y agoIt's not, it's just generally a deceptive business practice. And while others may be doing it in good faith, it's very very very well established by now that Oracle is not. They very specifically do things this way, knowing that it will make it impossible for large orgs to police this, and can then extract money from the org, whether it's really owed or not.