On 12/19/10 11:29 AM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > Yes, APIs provided to 3rd parties -- so everyone can develop > extensions. Like FireFox. > > Now the standard version is OSE. > > Many components were open-sourced with v4.0: (those were PUEL with v3.x) > -USB v1.1 > -User Manual source code > -Installer sources (windows scripts + Linux RPM SPECs + ...) > -Shared Folder for Windows guests... > > The VBox v4.x you download now -- is OSE. > All PUEL components are now in extpack. This is so great. Thanks to VBox team for having such great open source product!
However, I think there were always possible to buy support contract for Virtualbox and I can not see clearly link on the site for that anymore. Are support contracts still available? I was thinking of recommending them to some people at a certain moment. Connected to that, Will supported platform extend to illumos distributions (open source opensolaris continuation), like Openindiana (/dev), OmniOS, SmartOS, OpenSXCE, Nexenta (not fully open source), and some upcoming ones. - http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/Distributions - Nexenta have some relationship with Vmware, so maybe there is a space for expanding VirtualBox to it to compete with closed-source competition. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
