Microsoft Allows Free Redistribution of Virtual Server, PC
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 31st Aug 2006 18:24 UTC, submitted by Alessandro Perilli
Microsoft "With an unexpected move Microsoft changed agreement terms of its virtualization products and allows anybody to freely redistribute them within proprietary applications. In particular Virtual Server 2005 R2 (both x86 and x64 editions) requires to sign a Redistrbution Rights licensing agreement, while Virtual PC 2004 automatically grants this right in the EULA. The upcoming Virtual PC 2007 will be redistributable as well."
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Well...
by MattPie on Thu 31st Aug 2006 18:54 UTC
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2006-04-18

With VMware and Xen, they kind of had to release it at no-cost...

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RE: Well...
by eMagius on Thu 31st Aug 2006 19:23 UTC in reply to "Well..."
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2005-07-06

That's not what this story is about. This is about allowing others to freely redistribute Virtual Server/PC with their own applications, which is a big deal.

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Demoware
by ewright on Thu 31st Aug 2006 23:25 UTC
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2005-07-21

The distribution of Virtual Server on a DVD containg demo software could be used to provide a better out-of-box demo experience.

One time, I packaged Virtual Server with a pair of pre-built virtual machines onto DVD to send a "reference implementation" to an integration partner. Worked great!

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Bugged with linux ?
by fredb1974 on Fri 1st Sep 2006 11:22 UTC
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2006-01-31

I wonder if it as bugged as Virtual PC 2004 for linux 24 bits display ?

I cannot - and I will not ever - use it because VMWare Server which is free too is as good, not to say better than MS software.

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