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On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:09:57 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > It seems a little underhand to me, either its open source or it isn't. |
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> > There's no good technical reason to not release the USB source, only |
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> > commercial reasons. |
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> I agree, but it may be that Sun had licensed stuff like this from |
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> someone else prior to making the project Open Source and cannot |
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> release it. |
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That's possible, but reading what they say about it makes me doubt that, |
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that this was a choice they made. |
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> I didn't like some of the language on that page where they said: |
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> "It is functionally equivalent to the full VirtualBox package, except |
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> for a few features that primarily target enterprise customers." |
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Since when was USB storage primarily for Enterprise users? |
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> I don't like it when they say 'functionally equivalent' as it makes me |
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> think it's not __exactly__ the same code. |
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Good point. This seems more like crippleware masquerading as open source. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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