From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 21:59:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E43A16A611 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:59:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7715743EBC for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:57:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 25598 invoked by uid 399); 17 Dec 2006 21:57:43 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.5?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Dec 2006 21:57:43 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <4585BD4C.2030604@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:57:32 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.freebsd.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061215) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ensel Sharon References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: legal use of vmware on FreeBSD _not possible_ (informational) X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:59:36 -0000 Ensel Sharon wrote: > > 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. Apparently you didn't read the paragraph you quoted above. >>> 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 don't care how much you think you understand about vmware licensing terms. Your statement, "Your only other option is to break the law" clearly demonstrates that you don't actually understand anything about _the law_, which is what I suggested that you stop giving advice about. > 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_. -- This .signature sanitized for your protection