[Meme] VMware Violates the GPL. But It Compensates With 'Search and Replace'...

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2020-07-24 16:31:42 UTC
Modified: 2020-07-24 16:31:42 UTC

Related and older: The Linux Foundation Has Helped VMware Lie About Its Deliberate GPL Violations That are Connected to Microsoft, Another Prolific GPL Violator | The Openwashing of VMware, Sponsored by the Linux Foundation (in Turn Sponsored by VMware) | Openwashing Report: The Linux Foundation Champions Openwashing of GPL-Violating VMware

Oh, they caught us violating the GPL. But we don't want to actually comply by liberating our code.

VMware: OK, we've heard you. We'll do something about our violations...

VMware to stop describing hardware as ‘male’ and ‘female’ in new terminology guide

Summary: Finally, albeit belatedly, VMware responds to its illegal behaviour (without actually tackling that behaviour, just cheap and rather shallow tokens of ethics or "corporate responsibility")

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