techworld.com — VMware has slammed Microsoft's tie-up with open source virtualisation developer XenSource, announced earlier this week, calling it a "one-way street," and accusing XenSource of betraying its open source roots.
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suomiJul 21, 2006
I maybe wrong, but it seemed to me that the Connectix buy-out was more to do with getting control of the Windows platform running on Macs - however, it was still a mis-step, because obviously the playing field completely changed the day Jobs put up that "It's TRUe" slide.
walterk29Jul 21, 2006
Didn't this just hit the front page yesterday?
acomjJul 21, 2006
Isn't MS using Virtual PC to try and make the xbox360 (Powerpc) run older xbox games (x86) by emulating x86 hardware? Of course it runs slower than it should.That are they're just trying to kill the product. Like Sony buying the rights to connectix virtual game station (a playstation emulator for powerpc)
ratripJul 21, 2006
"Does anyone know if a GPL'd product be "bought" up and converted to a proprietary thing?"Yes, that can be done. It requires all the copyright holders to agree to a new closed license for future distributions. What cannot be done, is retroactively close the already GPL-ed code. That cat is out of the bag.So closing the product only makes sense if you think you can outcode the inevitable fork of the last GPL-ed release. Most of the time that doesn't happen, because a FOSS project is only of interest to most if it is FOSS. The closed product will be shunned instantly by the FOSS community.A Free project can be a shining pinnacle in the FOSS world, but closed it and it might mean being vendor 3000874532 in the closed world.
qnetterJul 25, 2006
XenSource never said it would only do open source products. It said Xen is, and would continue to be, open source, and continue to be advanced. There are many oher things for XS to do -- like, for instance, building other products that work with Microsoft's stuff that aren't open source and don't use a line of Xen code. They're a company, not a project.