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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2006-12-28
Dude, before you start calling people zealots, you might actually want to read up on what's been going on in the IT world recently.
There has been quite a few questions asked about ESX3 and, more specifically, if it can be considered a derived work of the Linux kernel.
I understand if you don't like, or care, about this sort of thing but if you use software for your proprietary product, you need to abide by the license of that software.
How would you feel if VMWare built ESX3 on top of FBSD yet 'forgot' to mention that in they're copyright?