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Virtualbox Goes OSS

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the cut-a-hole-in-the-box dept.

paltemalte writes to tell us that VirtualBox has gone open source. InnoTek released their virtualization product as open source and launched virtualbox.org to help cultivate the community and allow further development of the software.

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  1. Someone needs to explain bittorrent to them by symbolset · · Score: 5, Insightful
    From their download page:
    * Note: Even though we provide BitTorrents to allow for easier downloads, we do not currently permit redistribution of the VirtualBox binaries above. See the Licensing FAQ for details. This restriction does not, of course, apply to the Open Source Edition (OSE) below.

    Obviously the don't quite get how bittorrent works.

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  2. Re:Can Linux Virtualization Get Any More Fragmente by QuantumG · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Competition is great. I love competition. But there's this other thing, called co-operation, and us folks in the open source world, we're supposed to be better at co-operation than we are at competition. If just a few of these groups would work together (instead of just pinching stuff from qemu, as most of them do) the technology would be a whole lot better.

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