On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 01:48:43PM +0200, Norbert Nemec wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 09:41:53AM -0500, Cowboy wrote: > > > > > > I hadn't thought about VMWare, but it has several advantages. > > > > Just for the record, it has also the disadvantage of being > > proprietary software (read: non-free). > > True, that is a disadvantage - but as long as we do not get dependent on it > in any way - why not make use of it? For the moment it is just a matter of > comfort: Some people buy two computers to create a network for the hurd, > why should not others buy a second "virtual" computer for the same > purpose?
I don't want to start a philosophical discussion, but working with and free software is only barely related to convenience for me. > > > For me, the ability to make a SCSI disk appear to be an IDE disk, > > > has temporarily solved several problems. > > > > We would still like to solve the real problem, though ;) > > As soon as we have solved this problem and many others like the hurd > console and the X-Servers under hurd, there will be no reason to use > VMware any more (except for people who do real work on the kernel and > have plenty of crashes every day...) I think that there will always be people who will pull the convenience argument. "Just this little piece of non-free software until there is a free replacement". There is always a further little piece of convenient non-free software out there that might be desireable to some. However, I really don't care very much if you use some non-free software or not. I just wanted to point it out to those who might wonder why VMWare is not widely advocated if it is such a cool thing. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
