OK, but that anecdote is orthogonal to your original claim. No mention of a lawsuit or actually having to pay extra fees. And "rogue installs" essentially means "using copyrighted software in a quantity that exceeds what we actually paid for", i.e. theft.
> No mention of ... actually having to pay extra fees.
> If any offending installations were found, they would charge the company the cost of the license for every machine.
I don’t think you read that correctly. To use an analogy, it’s similar to Costco requiring me to pay again for every item in my cart because I forgot to ring up a carton of eggs when I went through self-checkout. Maybe you don’t call that “extra” but I think most people would.
No, I read it correctly, did you? They didn't say they ultimately had to pay any of those fees, just that the violation fees were dangled as a threat. They explicitly said "there was a huge firedrill to root out any rogue installs" which strongly implies they did not actually pay any of those extra violation fees, because they rooted out those license violations before being charged!
So $0 contribution to Oracle's revenue from fees in that anecdote, was my point. (The key word there in my comment was "actually", as in actually paying the fees, whereas you focused on the word "extra" instead. I don't debate that if the fees were actually paid, then yes that is quite obviously an extra fee.)
