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On 13 May Jan Grant wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2003, Fabio Miranda Hamburger wrote:
>> vmware.com just looks like a comercial site, very far from opensource
>> philosophy. however, vmware is such a big usefull system.

That's because vmware IS a commercial product ;)
 
> Useful enough to pay cash for? If so, you need to buy a license.
> Otherwise, you probably want to explore alternatives such as Wine or
> Plex86.

Apart from that. OP probably runs vmware-2.x (fbsd-4.8 does not support
vmware's 3.x version). Licenses for v2.x are NOT supported/given anymore
on vmware's site.

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