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Oracle is demanding money for VBox Extension Pack (2023)

• dvfjsdhgfv 1y ago
  From the comments: "Honestly, it's a shakedown like others have said. But to be frank, we found it much easier to just block oracle.com so it stops happening. It def generates some tickets for "I need to download java", but that's not technically "free" for enterprises either "
• roscas 1y ago
  Oh no! Oh wait, I don't really care. I still have VBox installed with a few machines but since Workstation 17 is free, I only use that. And it is faster than VBox. So until Broadcom decices to make people pay for WS17, that is my pick. You still have other options. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Category:Virtualization https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Category:Virtualization And if you have an old machine, put on Proxmox. Bye bye VBOX!
  • karlgkk 1y ago
    > until Broadcom decices to make people pay for WS17 Don’t give Hock Tan any ideas
• wdavidw 1y ago
  We switch to Incus for all our dev environments and it has been a pleasure since then