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Everywhere where they may be a shadow data science team. And that's how they get you. One has to be very careful to install the Open Source portions. They make
by zubiaur 1y ago
Everywhere where they may be a shadow data science team. And that's how they get you. One has to be very careful to install the Open Source portions. They make no effort to make the boundary obvious. If one does not, IT will get a call asking for licensing money.
- gonzalohm 1y agoHow are they going to find out though?
- throwaway3646 1y agoBy checking IP, I'm guessing
- gonzalohm 1y agoI work from home and even if I didn't, how are they going to link an IP to a company
- zubiaur 1y agoThey have a form where they ask for an email before giving the download link. My guess is that + a bit of telemetry.
- throwaway3646 1y agoThis will also happen if you use condaforge, which can be downloaded freely. Condaforge will also download from the main channel if the recipe requires it.
- gonzalohm 1y agoYou can bypass that
- throwaway3646 1y agoCan confirm, this is exactly what happened. They demand ridiculous back payments unless you buy multiple-year licenses. It would be trivial for them to require an account to use the main channel, but they deliberately make it easy to accidentally use it. If you have to use it, make sure to DNS block anaconda.com (.org seems to be fine), but even better, just avoid them like the plague.