He could have gotten Virtualbox.

With the uncertain future that comes from being managed by Oracle now.

Not totally uncertain, there's the GPL'd version which contains almost all the functionality non-commercial desktop users would require (except USB 2.0 device speeds). Oracle can derail VirtualBox the trademark, but they can't prevent a fork.

To be fair, so far virtual box has moved ahead pretty well under oracle.

I would not support a business of which I had these sentiments:

It is a shameless, low class, money grab. (twice)

It’s another tasteless scam formulated by a greedy, customer hostile executive tool.

Surely there are competitors in the marketplace?

We vote with our dollars.

The competitor is VMWare, which it seems is just as bad.