[zdragnar]

I'm less concerned that they're operating in good faith than that there are multiple competing interests within Oracle. Once (if?) their cloud offering gains traction, someone somewhere else in the org will decide that the free tier is costing them too much, and the screws start getting tightened.

They aren't unique among big companies to have offered utterly opaque and punitive pricing terms, but if they hope to use the free tier to attract developers into recommending Oracle to their employers, I have a hard time imagining it will be successful given what a terrible experience older folk have had with them.

Perhaps someday, people will forget the lawnmower analogy (and the reasons behind it) and they can start fresh, I guess.