[gentoo-user] Ethics of vmware use

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I like to be one of the good guys.  I'm not always sure what that means
in particular cases, so I'm going to ask what I should do here.  Opinions
welcome.  Flames somewhat less so.

I got a 30-day trial license for vmware, thinking to replace my aging
Win4Lin.  It seems to work (thanks to folks on this list).  But I notice
that now that I've created my VMs, I may not need workstation any
more.  I could do very well with the player, which is free.

I'm using VMware to virtualize my old Win98 that used to run on
a predecessor of the current host.  On this, I run Quicken and I may
decide to run some games as well.

I'd just go ahead and buy Workstation except for the ~$200.-- price tag.
But somehow it seems more like a $50.00 item for what I'm doing
with it.  I just feel a bit cheap using and ditching a trial version, since
I'm definitely getting a benefit from it I could not have gotten otherwise
(unless I could prevail on someone else to build the VM for me).

On that point, what are the ethics of building VMs for others?
What does VMware say about this?

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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD