Originally posted by bulletxt
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There are plenty of things out there where a paid closed-source version is better. Oracle does care more about Virtualbox than OpenOffice, but they didn't buy out Sun for Virtualbox. Even when Sun gained ownwership of VB, it was still open source - if Oracle really cared about it, they'd have collaborated with Sun to improve it for their needs. There may have only been 3 significant releases involving more than just bug fixes since Oracle bought out Sun. They have a lot of work to do to catch up with the others. I have no problem with Virtualbox - it is my go-to VM all the time, but I can still admit it has its problems.
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