Or better yet, don't use any corporate resources in developing this. Do it on your own time, on your own computer which stays w/ ya once you quit the job, and the company has no claims whatsoever over what you did.
Or carry on all your work in a highly public way (as in this case). If you do open source work on company time, as many do with the full knowledge of their manager and/or employer, then a thing called estoppel kicks in. That means, if you are doing public work and your employer knows about it but does not tell you to stop, or on the contrary, expresses approval, it means you have tacit agreement to carry on in the way that both you and your employer are presenting themselves to the world. Or in other words, if it walks like an open source project and quacks like an open source project, it's an open source project, and in absence of any specific agreement to the contrary, that cannot be undone at the whim of an employer.
VMWare is coming off like idiots here that don't understand forking.
...and who also apparently do not understand PR, community relations, morality, gratitude or how to keep their fat hands in their collective pockets where they belong.
Look at it this way: those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Suppose we suddenly all got interested in the question of whether ESX is really an original work, and not derived in any way from Linux source?
... they can pretty much kill the fork as well. "Oh sorry, the code you thought was Apache licenced, sorry he had no right to do that - it's ours."
Hah, I would like to see VMware try it. The code would be rewritten overnight and VMware would lose tons of karma, and probably some good employees as well. Not to mention the advice that would properly be given to prospective new hires: work for some less carnivorous company that might actually respect you and the community that allowed them to attain the lofty position they enjoy today.
This is a clear case of VMWare doing evil. So does this new, distasteful corporate direction have something to do with the arrival of Pat "tick tock crush AMD by fair means or foul" Gelsinger?
Funny you say that because the console to kill is Microsoft's.
How do you kill a zombie? Because that is what Microsoft's machine is. It's the walking wounded. If Microsoft is stupid enough to go around again, it's more millions down the bottomless pit, and who cares about it. There is only one word for the gaming experience on XBox: derivative. Anybody who is happy with that is the sort of person who is also overweight.
Woohoo, you Microsoft zombie spinmods did not like that one little bit!
Funny you say that because the console to kill is Microsoft's.
How do you kill a zombie? Because that is what Microsoft's machine is. It's the walking wounded. If Microsoft is stupid enough to go around again, it's more millions down the bottomless pit, and who cares about it. There is only one word for the gaming experience on XBox: derivative. Anybody who is happy with that is the sort of person who is also overweight.
You're wrong. The whole point of consoles is to establish a borderline illegal lock-in monopoly, while laughing at customers who whine about their boxes full of dusty useless games that don't work any more on the shiny new pieces of crap.
I'm looking forward with tremendous anticipation to new products from Sony and Msft. I will be on the edge of my seat watching those two paragons of evil beat each other to a pulp again and lose more $billions. A Tweedledee vs Tweedledum extreme mud wrestling cage fight. And I need to see if they can manage to burn a few houses down between them this time, especially since Microsoft got oh so close last time.
Microsoft is famously last to leave the party. Remember Comdex? After years of scatch-your-eyes-out boring keynotes by Bill Gates, it finally bit the biscuit. Microsoft kept going right to the bitter end. Replay at CES: Microsoft to announce the walking wounded XBox 720 without the remotest chance of keeping up with even mid specced PCs, and with idie revival the new game in town. Clue train on the way, last stop is Microsoft.
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Or better yet, don't use any corporate resources in developing this. Do it on your own time, on your own computer which stays w/ ya once you quit the job, and the company has no claims whatsoever over what you did.
Or carry on all your work in a highly public way (as in this case). If you do open source work on company time, as many do with the full knowledge of their manager and/or employer, then a thing called estoppel kicks in. That means, if you are doing public work and your employer knows about it but does not tell you to stop, or on the contrary, expresses approval, it means you have tacit agreement to carry on in the way that both you and your employer are presenting themselves to the world. Or in other words, if it walks like an open source project and quacks like an open source project, it's an open source project, and in absence of any specific agreement to the contrary, that cannot be undone at the whim of an employer.
VMWare is coming off like idiots here that don't understand forking.
...and who also apparently do not understand PR, community relations, morality, gratitude or how to keep their fat hands in their collective pockets where they belong.
Look at it this way: those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Suppose we suddenly all got interested in the question of whether ESX is really an original work, and not derived in any way from Linux source?
if VMWare press the issue they will simply fork and go away, and VMWare will end as the leader of a deceased project.
...and end up with a big fat oozing purple bruise right in the middle of their hitherto respectable karma.
... they can pretty much kill the fork as well. "Oh sorry, the code you thought was Apache licenced, sorry he had no right to do that - it's ours."
Hah, I would like to see VMware try it. The code would be rewritten overnight and VMware would lose tons of karma, and probably some good employees as well. Not to mention the advice that would properly be given to prospective new hires: work for some less carnivorous company that might actually respect you and the community that allowed them to attain the lofty position they enjoy today.
So does that mean that VMWare will soon be bought by Oracle?
This is a clear case of VMWare doing evil. So does this new, distasteful corporate direction have something to do with the arrival of Pat "tick tock crush AMD by fair means or foul" Gelsinger?
So, just like Microsoft and Apple. How can you tell the difference between one morally bankrupt organization and another?
Rome was the top selling global empire for 450 years then it got sacked by barbarians.
Sorry buddy, but MS won
Hey, you are a real comedian. Sure, MS won just as much as Rome won around the time it got sacked by barbarians, the first time.
Funny you say that because the console to kill is Microsoft's.
How do you kill a zombie? Because that is what Microsoft's machine is. It's the walking wounded. If Microsoft is stupid enough to go around again, it's more millions down the bottomless pit, and who cares about it. There is only one word for the gaming experience on XBox: derivative. Anybody who is happy with that is the sort of person who is also overweight.
Woohoo, you Microsoft zombie spinmods did not like that one little bit!
They shut up as soon as they could get a Linux tablet.
Funny you say that because the console to kill is Microsoft's.
How do you kill a zombie? Because that is what Microsoft's machine is. It's the walking wounded. If Microsoft is stupid enough to go around again, it's more millions down the bottomless pit, and who cares about it. There is only one word for the gaming experience on XBox: derivative. Anybody who is happy with that is the sort of person who is also overweight.
They were both shitty the day they came out, then they got worse.
Please run an Xbox 1 game on an Xbox 360. If you can't, then please lick my butt.
Mommy may want to buy some shitty Ouya console cause its cheap, but little Jimmy won't want to play this shitty half assed games on it.
Ha ha, you're funny. And nobody is playing a game on their phone right now. Oh wait, *you* are! What a dick.
No don't because he's wrong. Anything with Microsoft running on it is far from a console killer, quite the contrary.
Xbox 360 and PS3 aren't powerful, they never were, they're actually pretty shitty.
There is no way in hell they will call it Xbox 720. It would be a terrible marketing.
And Microsoft never does that. Oh wait... Seinfeld... butt wiggle... bald headed men squirting... oh my.
You're wrong. The whole point of consoles is to establish a borderline illegal lock-in monopoly, while laughing at customers who whine about their boxes full of dusty useless games that don't work any more on the shiny new pieces of crap.
I'm looking forward with tremendous anticipation to new products from Sony and Msft. I will be on the edge of my seat watching those two paragons of evil beat each other to a pulp again and lose more $billions. A Tweedledee vs Tweedledum extreme mud wrestling cage fight. And I need to see if they can manage to burn a few houses down between them this time, especially since Microsoft got oh so close last time.
Microsoft is famously last to leave the party. Remember Comdex? After years of scatch-your-eyes-out boring keynotes by Bill Gates, it finally bit the biscuit. Microsoft kept going right to the bitter end. Replay at CES: Microsoft to announce the walking wounded XBox 720 without the remotest chance of keeping up with even mid specced PCs, and with idie revival the new game in town. Clue train on the way, last stop is Microsoft.
Phones are for old people.
That's not true. I was on the train the other day and I noticed that iPhones are for girls and girly men.
It's not clear whether Larry Page and/or Sergey Brin are psychopaths.
They're a little kinky but they just don't move the needle on the above mentioned psycho scale.
I totally understand that your sphincter does not smell bad to you, after all, you're willing to use Apple products.