On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:28:41PM +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > For all those who are still living in a bobble, vmware released some > months ago "free at no cost" applications which only play the good old > vmware images, for Linux, Windows and Mac. They also provide a lot of > images for most of your favorite Linux distros. It seems they are afraid > of qemu... :)
Actually, I'd say Xen had a lot more to do with it. > How to make new images for this tool...? (evaluating other vmware > products...?) Pay VMWare money. > Now a more theoretical question. Lets say, I write an extreamly cool > application.... but it can be compiled with my own language, which I do > not provide specs, and I do not give a "free at no cost" tool for > compiling applications for it. Now, I also release the source of the > application (in my very uncool language) under the terms of the GPL. > > How the hell does the GPL help me here...? I still have no way to really > trust that application.... I suggest rereading "Reflections on Trusting Trust". Also, http://free.oszoo.org/ Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
