Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 16:35:37 -0500 (EST) From: Ensel Sharon <user@dhp.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: legal use of vmware on FreeBSD _not possible_ (informational) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0612171625130.21120-100000@shell.dhp.com> In-Reply-To: <4585B3AC.30105@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Doug Barton wrote: > Ensel Sharon wrote: > > > For reasons difficult to discern, FreeBSD has not put any priority at all > > on support for vmware, and for continuing the working, usable support for > > vmware3 running in linux binary compat mode. > > It's not difficult to discern at all. This is a volunteer project. No > one has volunteered to maintain this. Q.E.D. It's difficult to discern why it has been allowed to degrade. Circa 2001, you could have a reasonably up to date emulation environment under vmware on FreeBSD. At the time vmware3 was a modern version and it worked quite well under FreeBSD 4.x. Circa 2006 you have no chance. In the 5-year period between those two dates, the need for emulation and hosting of environments and other OSs has, without question, increased dramatically. So if there was never any support to begin with, then fine - obviously that's the breaks. But to let existing (important) functionality decline to unusability is hard to justify. > > Your only other option is to break the law > > Please don't give legal advice. You're obviously not a lawyer, and you > obviously don't understand the law. Wrong. I embarked on a two month long quest with vmware to get them to please, please just let me pay them money for a 3.0 license. It can't be done. I was advised in _no uncertain terms_ that if I found some other way to obtain a v3.x license I would be _breaking the law_. If you have an issue with how vmware protects their licenses, take it up with them (I did) (and failed). Don't shoot the messenger.
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