VirtualBox Guest Shared Folder Support Coming To The Mainline Linux Kernel

[edwaleni]

Well, that's ok, but it's completely unrelated to the article he linked. You might as well stated that you should respect people for what they are.

All I wanted to say is if VBox is free why is Oracle being a pain in the ass for a free product? I acknowledged I read the article and checked to see if one could actually pay money for it.

Not much more than that. Sorry I was hard to follow. I got educated.

[tului]

Interesting story.

You can buy Virtual Box if you want support. $50 per named user will get you 100 installs.

Oracle VM VirtualBox Enterprise can be licensed as Named User Plus licenses or per Socket.

https://www.oracle.com/virtualization/virtualbox/index.html

As for that free version:

Oracle grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license without fees to reproduce, install, execute, and use internally the Product on Host Computers for your Personal Use, Educational Use, or Evaluation.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL

So if someone is running VBox commercially and making money off of it, well, you owe Oracle.

'For Richard Palmer, director of the company, this was a perplexing demand. As he explained to The Register, "Merula does not operate or manage any computer using VirtualBox or any Oracle software."'