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What is the worse vendor you have worked with? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Oracle. We weren't even a customer. We just had an ip space with a bunch of customers on it. Yhey tried to claim we needed to pay for all their virtualbox downloads since we weren't a home isp.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

If Oracle calls you, hang up immediately

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Why do people use VirtualBox when there are great FOSS alternatives?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

...such as? I also use VB on windows at home; it's what I have always used since a teen, because there were basically no free alternatives

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Use Hyper-V on Windows and the CLI on linux

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

KVM/QEMU

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I use VirtualBox on Windows 10 at home, simply because it is easy and free.