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12-09-2013 11:34 AM |
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Originally Posted by jtsn
(Post 5077857)
I won't help Oracle by sending them patches for free, they don't deserve it.
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I do not like Oracle either but because their bug tracker and VirtualBox are open, I can also help other users when I post a patch, not only Oracle.
Also, when Oracle takes our work, there is no loss from either. VMware however, wastes our time if we do debugging for their closed source programs. Why should anyone waste his/her time when this overhead can be completely avoided with open source?
When you help Oracle, your cost and their gain is 1:1. When helping VMware, this ratio can be 100:1 or more. So why help VMware? (Note: I didn't say "why not help Oracle".)
As you said, VMware is more powerful. The powerful needs no aid. It shows you it needs no aid by closing its source. Please don't disgrace VMware by helping it.
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Originally Posted by jtsn
(Post 5077857)
The USB 2.0 support in VBox is not open source and USB 3.0 support is completely missing.
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Ok, then you have a very special use case -- to use USB 3.0 in the guest.
BTW
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Originally Posted by jtsn
(Post 5077857)
: I'm just fine with good proprietary application software, that's why I'm using Opera and Steam. So the VBox license is completely irrelevant to me.
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I also use opera. I have good feelings with it, but I don't fix bugs for opera, just like I don't fix bugs for VMware. Life is limited. No waste of time.
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Originally Posted by jtsn
(Post 5077857)
Qemu is an emulator, not a virtualizer. The hypervisor is KVM-only. I have no use for emulators, they are too slow.
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Ok, so you are a MS-Windows user. Then I understand, qemu is not good for you. However, that kvm is not ported to MS-Windows doesn't mean it is not portable.
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