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Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Re: Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Post by AQuantized »

tsimionescu wrote: post #106
chrisseaton wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> rebuild the licenses around it Isn't it all GPL?

The code is GPL, but the official Oracle binaries are not (since Oracle owns the copyright, they are free to release under multiple different licenses) and they use Oracle's predatory "free" licensing - you când download and run for free for 6 months, but you owe them money if you keep running those binaries after the moment the new version is released. There is no explicit enforcement mechanism - it's up to you to b…

So it can be avoided by compiling the code yourself?

Re: Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Post by souldragon »

So I been using the service for a couple months now, and I been accumulating charges on my free account related to "Block Volume - Performance Units", which is small 0.03+ charges added to default "Balanced Setting" free disk volume each month, and 0.03 a day is smallest amount it accumulates, when hosting stuff on there I accumulated 0.55 cents.

So if you want truly free, you need to select "Lower Cost" by placing the slider down to 0 VPU.

Still I feel like it's a matter time with all these hidden not so free nobs until I get slammed with big cloud bills.

Side note, can't delete my Tenancy (get an error) or my Account(waiting for something from support).

Edit* $0.55 for this month, supposedly I owe $10.56 this year for these VPU's, but I am free tier so not sure how this is going work?

Re: Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Post by walrus01 »

rozap wrote: post #47
dijit wrote: post #34

Be extremely wary of Oracle free tiers. They offered a free tier and forced me to choose a shape. I chose the smallest of the two “shapes” but it was apparently not free. This was not especially clear until I got my first bill (it was extortionate; like 60eur/mo for 1cpu/2g ram) so I stopped/removed the instance. This did not prevent me from being billed the next month, or the next month. They charged me until my car…

Oh my god. Oracle having my address and credit card number is a nightmare scenario.

I wonder what happens if you sign up with a fake name, semi-disposable email address and a prepaid visa gift card that has $3.50 remaining balance on it.

Re: Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Post by eitland »

social_quotient wrote: post #75
dijit wrote: post #34

Be extremely wary of Oracle free tiers. They offered a free tier and forced me to choose a shape. I chose the smallest of the two “shapes” but it was apparently not free. This was not especially clear until I got my first bill (it was extortionate; like 60eur/mo for 1cpu/2g ram) so I stopped/removed the instance. This did not prevent me from being billed the next month, or the next month. They charged me until my car…

Similar problem to me when they acquired apiary. I was in a free tier of apiary which became a paid tier under oracle. They then charged me for months. I finally had to write a letter (yes snail mail) stating that we were going to report them for deceptive trade practices to the attorney general of Texas. They got back to me after a few weeks. They promised a refund…never got that and it’s just not worth fighting. I…

I worked for a company that brought Oracle customers.

Didn't prevent them from trying to extort us too.

Re: Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Post by tablespoon »

tsimionescu wrote: post #106
chrisseaton wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> rebuild the licenses around it Isn't it all GPL?

The code is GPL, but the official Oracle binaries are not (since Oracle owns the copyright, they are free to release under multiple different licenses) and they use Oracle's predatory "free" licensing - you când download and run for free for 6 months, but you owe them money if you keep running those binaries after the moment the new version is released. There is no explicit enforcement mechanism - it's up to you to b…

> The code is GPL, but the official Oracle binaries are not (since Oracle owns the copyright, they are free to release under multiple different licenses) and they use Oracle's predatory "free" licensing...

And once they started doing that, everyone switched to some flavor of OpenJDK, many distributions of which are backed by organizations of at least Oracle's size.

https://adoptopenjdk.net/

https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/

https://developers.redhat.com/products/openjdk/overview

https://www.microsoft.com/openjdk

Re: Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Post by eitland »

rozap wrote: post #47
dijit wrote: post #34

Be extremely wary of Oracle free tiers. They offered a free tier and forced me to choose a shape. I chose the smallest of the two “shapes” but it was apparently not free. This was not especially clear until I got my first bill (it was extortionate; like 60eur/mo for 1cpu/2g ram) so I stopped/removed the instance. This did not prevent me from being billed the next month, or the next month. They charged me until my car…

Oh my god. Oracle having my address and credit card number is a nightmare scenario.

Some might think this is a joke, but the IT manager at one place I worked was almost fooled into thinking he had to pay licenses for our MariaDB databases running on AWS after Oracle had got his name from a web form.

This is a different company than the other one I mentioned elsewhere where we resold Oracle and they still tried to extort us.

Re: Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Post by heavyset_go »

alx__ wrote: post #38
chomp wrote: post #21

I played around with Oracles free tier. When you first sign up, you must choose a “home” region. You cannot add another region on the free plan. These awesome free instances are very limited stock. You have no way of knowing if the region you choose has stock of the desired instances before you select the region. You may not change your “home” region. You will get sales phone calls. Caveat emptor.

So when i sign up I should the phone number of my nemesis? Noted.

They verify the number in the sign up process.
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