Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th Jun 2007 20:42 UTC
"I remember the day I was interviewed at VMware. I was asked what I would do to improve Workstation, and one of the things I said was that it would be nice to make a VM go rootless. That is, pull application windows out of the VM and make them integrate well with the operating system. I wasn't the only one. A lot of people wanted this type of feature. It's been discussed for years, but it's always been hard to find the manpower to do it. But competition is good, and we finally got some people on this feature. And it turned out spectacularly."
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@ HPReg
QUOTE: "My understanding is that Parallels Desktop 3.0 (private beta) has multiple snapshots."
Yes they have, now the question is (and I asked this before) will VMware enforce any of the 13 (is that number correct?) software patents (specially Patent 6795966) against Parallels? I'm assuming they won't but I would like to get an insider opinion about this.
QUOTE: "I guess we can now conclude that this whole snapshot patent issue was just FUD. The only question is: whose intesrest is it to spread this FUD?"
Listen, if you work for VMware and think of starting pointing out legit questions as being FUD, then you won't make many friends along the road... I raised some legit questions based on facts. It is not FUD and I am not the boogey man.
@ Karrick
QUOTE: "(2) If you want to whine about the broken US Patent system, there are **plenty** of places to take your discord." AND "(4) Kudos to ChipX86 to stepping into OSNews to candidly answer a few questions. How often do we see that sort of developer<->user interaction in the commercial software industry?"
How can you praise developer<->user interation when you accuse people raising legit questions of being whining?
@ dwave
QUOTE: "Software patents are not illegal in the EU - There just isn't a framework of laws yet to permit them."
Sorry but you are mistaken, software patents are illegal in the EU: Article 52 EPC excludes "programs for computers" from patentability (Art. 52(2)) to the extent that a patent application relates to a computer program "as such" (Art. 52(3))
http://www.european-patent-office.org/legal/epc/e/ar52.html