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Open Source and the "Xen" of Xen

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the not-all-roses dept.

willdavid writes "In a follow-up to his original look at what happened to Xen, Jeff Gould talks to XenSource CTO Simon Crosby. Usually we hear about how open source provides freedoms for end users. However, this article talks about the difficulty a small software developer has with an open source license, in particular, the need to prevent Red Hat, IBM or Novell from running away with all the business revenue."

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  1. redhat stealing xen mindshare by SolusSD · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Redhat Enterprise Linux refers to xen as Redhat Virtualization. Sure- the actual binaries are referred to as Xen, but the documentation gives virtually NO credit where credit is due. If I were a Xen developer, i'd be insulted.

    1. Re:redhat stealing xen mindshare by chicagoan · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I disagree. I think RedHat is generalizing virtualization and that is obvious with their libvirt. On Fedora 7 libvirt supports both Xen and KVM. The idea is that as new virtualization technologies come in, you can use the same api / gui for dealing with the different virtual machines.

      If they had a GUI called RedHat Xen, then they'd need another one for dealing with KVM.