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Why does this need to be regulated? Why would anyone buy software with such an obviously malicious contract like that? I think the problem is we've put up with EULAs for too long. No one would agree to sign a 50 page document when purchasing almost any other product.

>>Housha+(OP)
Because almost nobody who buys an Oracle license do so with the intention to run and publish these benchmarks. In other words, the EULA doesn’t affect how the vast majority of Oracle’s customers intend to use the software, and so they don’t feel it impacts them. Of course it actually does, because they might not have chosen Oracle, if they’d had access to accurate benchmarks when they made the buying decision, and maybe the fact that the EULA prevented such benchmarks from being published should have been a red flag. And maybe it would have been if Oracle was alone in this practice, but as the article states, it’s close to the standard practice in the industry.

>>adamle+qm
>Because almost nobody who buys an Oracle license do so with the intention to run and publish these benchmarks.

Obviously, but it's still a huge red flag, as you note yourself. Would people buy any other product if it came with a big disclaimer that you couldn't review it? I can't think of anywhere else that is done.

>And maybe it would have been if Oracle was alone in this practice, but as the article states, it’s close to the standard practice in the industry.

Well it had to have started somewhere.