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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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What you're doing is absolutely legit. You did download the trial |
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version, you don't need it more. You created a VM? Fine. You can use it |
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as much as you like it, I guess. |
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I know there is people distributing VM of free operating systems, so |
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it's perfectly fine to redistribute them to everyone else. They're |
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files, after all. Just output. |
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It wouldn't have been different if you had a program to compose and play |
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music, with a free player and a trial composer. You did compose your |
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"For Eliza" during the trial, and now you can play it freely. |
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Don't feel in guilt for proprietary software houses. They sure know |
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their business -if you can do what you've done respecting their |
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licenses, fine, it was their choice. |
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If you still feel in guilt, give the money you'd spend on Workstation to |
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the free QEMU project. This way perhaps no one will need a proprietary |
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VMWare Workstation. :D |
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m. |
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