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I like to be one of the good guys. I'm not always sure what that means |
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in particular cases, so I'm going to ask what I should do here. Opinions |
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welcome. Flames somewhat less so. |
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I got a 30-day trial license for vmware, thinking to replace my aging |
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Win4Lin. It seems to work (thanks to folks on this list). But I notice |
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that now that I've created my VMs, I may not need workstation any |
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more. I could do very well with the player, which is free. |
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I'm using VMware to virtualize my old Win98 that used to run on |
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a predecessor of the current host. On this, I run Quicken and I may |
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decide to run some games as well. |
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I'd just go ahead and buy Workstation except for the ~$200.-- price tag. |
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But somehow it seems more like a $50.00 item for what I'm doing |
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with it. I just feel a bit cheap using and ditching a trial version, since |
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I'm definitely getting a benefit from it I could not have gotten otherwise |
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(unless I could prevail on someone else to build the VM for me). |
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On that point, what are the ethics of building VMs for others? |
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What does VMware say about this? |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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