Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Sep 2007 19:56 UTC, submitted by SEJeff
Today, VMware announced that it has released a majority of its VMware Tools as open source software (GPLv2), part of the project Open Virtual Machine Tools. "The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source implementation of VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines."
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2007-03-14
Did you misread the announcement? Their open sourcing the tools.. not their virtualization software
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In reality, this will allow developers of operating systems to freely "interface" with the virtual machines etc..
As for them violating GPL, exactly "which" project would they "steal" from? You GPL zealots are annoying..