[josephcsible]

> Oracle's unbreakable linux is a close to useless rip off, littered with subtle gotchas, pitfalls and please-insert-yet-another-license-key-here.

I've never heard of Oracle Linux needing a license key anywhere before. Can you provide a link to somewhere that talks more about that?

[omniglottal]

Their business model allowed for greater ease to actually download and run unregistered/unlicensed copies, but higher costs with per-core licensing and clauses which required (i.e.) the per-core licensed OS plus the per-core licensed database if you wanted to use the latter. It was both easier to run for free and way more expensive to run in legal compliance.