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