From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 19:37:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clockwork.csudsu.com (clockwork.csudsu.com [209.249.57.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33AD837B479 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:37:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (stefan@localhost) by clockwork.csudsu.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA30725; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:37:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stefan@csudsu.com) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:37:32 -0800 (PST) From: Stefan Molnar To: Chris Hill Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: VMWare licensing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can DL VMWare freely. But here is the catch. You must pay to get the KEY to use it. That is the gotcha. On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Chris Hill wrote: > Does FreeBSD, Inc. have some special deal set up with VMWare? AFAIK > VMWare has always been commercial (pay) software, yet it's in the ports > collection. I'm not complaining, but what's up with that? > > Also, there is a note on VMWare's web site stating "On Dec. 4 our > company will discontinue the current hobbyist pricing and begin charging > a standard $299 fee..." Will this policy change on their part have any > effect on VMWare's existence as a port? > > Thanks. > > -- > Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > [1] Bus error netscape > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message