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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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