Comments on: Why Microsoft Resorts to Dirty Tricks with Virtualisation http://techrights.org/2008/07/17/dirty-tricks-with-virtualisation/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: wariola http://techrights.org/2008/07/17/dirty-tricks-with-virtualisation/comment-page-1/#comment-15558 wariola Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:15:39 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/07/17/dirty-tricks-with-virtualisation/#comment-15558 forking is easy to say, but hard to do due to resources. You need to have a new dedicated team to do it and resources (money) to sustain it. forking is easy to say, but hard to do due to resources. You need to have a new dedicated team to do it and resources (money) to sustain it.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2008/07/17/dirty-tricks-with-virtualisation/comment-page-1/#comment-15433 Roy Schestowitz Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:59:45 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/07/17/dirty-tricks-with-virtualisation/#comment-15433 I was going to write about forking of Xen later today. See <a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/07/15/open-source-communities-about-the-importance-of-retaining-an-open-source-community/" title="Open Source Communities: About the Importance of Retaining an Open Source Community" rel="nofollow">the following short (and new) analysis</A>: <blockquote cite="http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/07/15/open-source-communities-about-the-importance-of-retaining-an-open-source-community/"> Tony Asaro, who recently joined Virtual Iron as Chief Strategy Officer, pointed out that the Xen technology is also the result of the efforts of others, therefore the results are not owned by Citrix. Acquiring a virtualization company is easy, especially if you can pay an high price for it, retaining its community maybe a more difficult task, though. </blockquote> Bear in mind that VMWare too sort of 'forked' the Linux kernel (2.4) for at least one product. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/16/vmware_derived_from_linux/ http://www.venturecake.com/the-vmware-house-of-cards/ I was going to write about forking of Xen later today. See the following short (and new) analysis:

Tony Asaro, who recently joined Virtual Iron as Chief Strategy Officer, pointed out that the Xen technology is also the result of the efforts of others, therefore the results are not owned by Citrix.

Acquiring a virtualization company is easy, especially if you can pay an high price for it, retaining its community maybe a more difficult task, though.

Bear in mind that VMWare too sort of ‘forked’ the Linux kernel (2.4) for at least one product.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/16/vmware_derived_from_linux/
http://www.venturecake.com/the-vmware-house-of-cards/

]]> By: Ian http://techrights.org/2008/07/17/dirty-tricks-with-virtualisation/comment-page-1/#comment-15432 Ian Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:43:34 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/07/17/dirty-tricks-with-virtualisation/#comment-15432 A few things that don't quite add up for me: 1. Xen is an open source project. What's to stop someone from forking Xen if the Citrix control does indeed put its thumb into the developers? 2. If the fork happened, and people still wanted to develop for Xen, there's absolutely nothing to stop them. Due to that, the only real thing that can kill a free Xen is a complete lack of interest to develop it. Lack of interest is the only real way for an open source project to "die" in my opinion. 3. Microsoft's RDP client isn't only available on XP. It started life on XP, but there are separate downloads for 2000 and OSX for that matter. A few things that don’t quite add up for me:

1. Xen is an open source project. What’s to stop someone from forking Xen if the Citrix control does indeed put its thumb into the developers?

2. If the fork happened, and people still wanted to develop for Xen, there’s absolutely nothing to stop them. Due to that, the only real thing that can kill a free Xen is a complete lack of interest to develop it. Lack of interest is the only real way for an open source project to “die” in my opinion.

3. Microsoft’s RDP client isn’t only available on XP. It started life on XP, but there are separate downloads for 2000 and OSX for that matter.

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