They also have a track record of leaving dials in their software that are very easy to turn on but now mean you need to be on a higher license tier and will ding you in an audit and expect penalty fees for it (e.g. various flags in Oracle DB, Extensions Pack [1] in virtualbox, Java features[2] like Java Flight Recorder)

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/d1ttzp/oracle_is_...

[2]: https://upperedge.com/oracle/top-3-reasons-oracle-java-users...