From owner-freebsd-emulation Sat Mar 1 12:43:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AA4B37B401 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 12:43:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from dc-mx04.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx04.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B504843FA3 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 12:43:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@pathiakis.com) Received: from [66.189.13.10] (HELO pc2.pathiakis.com) by dc-mx04.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP id 80582621 for freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2003 15:43:21 -0500 From: Paul Pathiakis To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: VMWare License Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 15:46:46 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303011546.46184.paul@pathiakis.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, this letter is in regards to the my posting of December 12, 2002: Good day, I'm sure this is a common question: Since vmware doesn't sell licenses for 2.0 any longer and I'd like to run the vmware 2.0 port, where do I get the license or how do I get around needing one? Thank you, Paul Pathiakis As I have recently been contacted by several people on this subject, please let me post my response. 1) I did not know that although this product has been discontinued, it is still a licensed, COMMERCIAL product. 2) "get around needing one", as posted above, with regards to needing a license key, was with regards to my belief that this was a "free" and/or discontinued product, as it was located in the ports collection. 3) I do not condone the circumvention of licensed software that has not been donated, GPL'd, implicit copyrighted for use, or otherwise given to the global community. 4) Please do not contact me with regards to providing any such keys. I am a person who makes his career as a system administrator. I would not, in any such way shape or form, condone such behavior. It would be contradictory to my chosen career and my given ethics and morals as a sysadmin professional. This is a corporation's property that they generate revenue and such unlicensed use I consider to be theft. 5) Please support plex86, bochs or other products that I have found to be what I am looking for, Open Source or Freeware with no legal or financial entanglements. Sorry for being such a nuisance and having to post this to the list, but that's my disposition. I would hope everyone will respect this and cease contacting me when they search the archives. Thank you, Paul Pathiakis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message