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VMware May Violate Linux Copyrights
Nailer writes "Bloomberg believe VMware's IPO today may the largest technology offering since Google. But doubts have been cast over the company's supposedly proprietary ESX product, as top 10 Linux contributor Christopher Hellwig claims the software may violate Linux kernel copyrights. 'Is Hellwig right, and is VMware a derived product of Linux? Unless vmkernel can be loaded without the Linux kernel, it would appear so. VMware was developed from another, long ago OS created as a research project, but it's unclear whether vmkernel was ported from that OS or rewritten as the Linux-requiring binary blob. What's more of an issue is that VMware had these serious questions posed directly to them a year ago, repeated in a public forum many times since, but have yet to respond at all.'"
Your plan is missing a very important and crucial step:
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You heard it here first. In the next major ESX release, VMware will ditch the Linux service console altogether in favour of their own proprietary one. Admins around the globe cheer as they have to learn yet another system.
I joined two users too late.
I've read somewhere that SCO was offering a special discount on linux licenses this week. Quick! get one before the offer ends!
Just because Linux programmers don't get paid, you think it's OK to violate them?! You insensitive clod!
Copyright gets extended, we all get violated.
Cheers
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Mod the parent up. Clearly Microsoft Virtual PC is superior than VMWare in that it allows for significantly greater functionality such as allowing a 'guest' to execute arbitrary code on the 'host' or other 'guests'. Clearly VMWare is inferior in this aspect and we're all fools for not using another manifestation of 'Trustworthy Computing' from Microsoft. Hey, not to mention, VMWare doesn't run on Linux either...er...yes it does.
n /MS07-049.mspx
MS07-049:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulleti
From the advisory:
"An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Virtual PC and Microsoft Virtual Server that could allow a user with administrator permissions to the guest operating system to run code on the host operating system or other guest operating systems. An attacker with administrator permissions to the guest operating system, could exploit the vulnerability by running specially crafted code on the guest operating system. This could result in a heap overflow on the host or other guest operating systems. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system."
This can be quickly resolved with some stock....
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
ESX is like free software, it's better when it's free.
"Piter, too, is dead."