Ubuntu somehow likes not to recognize my ethernet-card sometimes. And change the brightness of my screen. And so on. I am nerved. I have other things to do. I could switch to Arch Linux again, but I neither have time nor do I see any sense at the moment.
A cygwin under Windows gives me the joy of free software as well as the possibility not to care about free software when I dont want to. At least for the moment. I guess.
Anyway, since a lot of work I am currently doing is still under Ubuntu, I use VirtualBox. Which asked me today whether I want to upgrade it. And when I did so, I saw new licensing terms. Especially the following part:
§ 2 Grant of license. (1) Oracle grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license without fees to reproduce, install, execute, and use internally the Product a Host Computer for your Personal Use, Educational Use, or Evaluation. “Personal Use” requires that you use the Product on the same Host Computer where you installed it yourself and that no more than one client connect to that Host Computer at a time for the purpose of displaying Guest Computers remotely. “Educational use” is any use in an academic institution (schools, colleges and universities, by teachers and students). “Evaluation” means testing the Product for a reasonable period (that is, normally for a few weeks); after expiry of that term, you are no longer permitted to evaluate the Product.[update. see below]
Nice. Looks like, in the end, VBox will become yet another Software I dont use. There is still qemu for this purpose. But so far, I guess I keep using it.
I will have to think about what software to use.
I will probably go back to Firefox since Chrome gets on my nerves with some webpages randomly crashing. I dont know whether to keep using Pidgin or using Miranda IM, which I consider the better client. Depends on my success of copying the user-profile.
And the other stuff like emacs will become a problem, since for many software, there are two versions, one inside cygwin and one outside cygwin.
I hate software.
Update: The License of VirtualBox is the default Windows-License as before, it seems. Anyway I dont like it so much anymore, because of the Oracle-logo (which is now also in OpenOffice ... bah).
Anyway, I still hate software.
A cygwin under Windows gives me the joy of free software as well as the possibility not to care about free software when I dont want to. At least for the moment. I guess.
Anyway, since a lot of work I am currently doing is still under Ubuntu, I use VirtualBox. Which asked me today whether I want to upgrade it. And when I did so,
§ 2 Grant of license. (1) Oracle grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license without fees to reproduce, install, execute, and use internally the Product a Host Computer for your Personal Use, Educational Use, or Evaluation. “Personal Use” requires that you use the Product on the same Host Computer where you installed it yourself and that no more than one client connect to that Host Computer at a time for the purpose of displaying Guest Computers remotely. “Educational use” is any use in an academic institution (schools, colleges and universities, by teachers and students). “Evaluation” means testing the Product for a reasonable period (that is, normally for a few weeks); after expiry of that term, you are no longer permitted to evaluate the Product.
Nice. Looks like, in the end, VBox will become yet another Software I dont use. There is still qemu for this purpose. But so far, I guess I keep using it.
I will have to think about what software to use.
I will probably go back to Firefox since Chrome gets on my nerves with some webpages randomly crashing. I dont know whether to keep using Pidgin or using Miranda IM, which I consider the better client. Depends on my success of copying the user-profile.
And the other stuff like emacs will become a problem, since for many software, there are two versions, one inside cygwin and one outside cygwin.
I hate software.
Update: The License of VirtualBox is the default Windows-License as before, it seems. Anyway I dont like it so much anymore, because of the Oracle-logo (which is now also in OpenOffice ... bah).
Anyway, I still hate software.
Last time I checked VirtualBox was dual (in fact triple) licensed. That means the whole thing is licensed under the PUEL terms you mentioned or commercial, and most parts (except things like USB and iSCSI support) are licensed under GPLv2.
Did Ubuntu change their default from OSE to PUEL?
That was under Windows. The Problem with VirtualBox OSE (besides that I dont know how to compile this under windows) is that it doesnt support USB-Forwarding, which is the feature I in fact need most.