Regards,

Anthony

Le 25 mai 2015 à 20:32, Marius Cirsta <[email protected]> a écrit :

> I do understand your point but we have enough closed source as it is
> and enough truly free and open source packages to maintain. While this
> packages si open source it's only useful together with some closed
> source stuff. We have VBox, qemu, docker as alternatives.
> 
> As soon as VmWare open sources at least some of their stuff I'll
> gladly maintain this and the open source VmWare but till then and
> unless some cares about these they're out.
> 
> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Miklos Vajna <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 06:06:36PM +0300, Marius Cirsta <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> Well since vmware is closed source and there are lots of open source
>>> alternatives I'd say no.... unless someone really cares about it.
>>> 
>>> Ryuo has a point that we need to reduce the maintenance burden and
>>> removing stuff like this is the way to do it.
>> 
>> Hmm... OK. While I love libvirt and all the tools provided around it, I
>> had the impression that the industry standard virt. technology is still
>> VMWare on x86, so having Frugalware working on that out of the box (if
>> all we have to do is to package the open source guest tools they
>> provide) is worth having.
>> 
>> But sure, if the removal really hurts, and someone steps up doing the
>> work, then it can be always restored from git, so it's not a big deal.
>> 
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