Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom

Jestzer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m out of the loop. Why not virtualbox?

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  • seanom@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dunno, Larry well understands what he does unlike most tech CEOs and owners today. Oracle was allied to Sun at some point. Larry has that demonic appearance, but he’s less of a threat than literally anybody else of them. Especially since Larry already has enormous power which he abuses less than expected.

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      • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You’re talking the CEO of a company who sued Google on the premise that header files, a descriptor file for what commands can be used and what parameters they took, should be copyrighted? The CEO who poisoned the OpenOffice community so thoroughly that the fork, LibreOffice, was founded by the leaders of OpenOffice and became the de facto standard instead of the original, and it happened overnight? That guy?

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      • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Citation needed on literally all points. Fuck Oracle, fuck Sun, and fuck Larry Ellison

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  • Zacpod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because Oracle sucks donkey balls.

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  • slappypantsgo@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t understand what these folks are saying. VirtualBox is community software. It does not matter that it comes from Oracle since it is fully libre/open.

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• muusemuuse@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I primarily use mac and when I need to quickly spin up a linux machine, parallels needs you to buy a new version every year or they wont support much, and fusion supports everything but its…vmware

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• kinther@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s free and works for me, why should I stop using Virtualbox?

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  • Jestzer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because it’s owned by Oracle and they’re the kings of malicious licensing. Using their software, even as an individual, with no intention of ever using it for work, gives them more power. Of course, if you ever even think about using it for work, then be prepared for the company you work for to be paying a huge bill or be sued.

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    • kinther@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s for personal use only. Should I be switching to native Linux virtualization with KVM or something?

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      • Jestzer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I would recommend it. I also started with VirtualBox and made my way over to GNOME Boxes. Anything else will have a learning curve, but in the end, I found the alternatives work better once you wrap your head around them and you don’t ever need to worry about Oracle pulling the rug from under you.

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  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    and what to use instead? run qemu commands and all the preparation by hand?

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    • dafta@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Virt-manager is a GUI for libvirt, which can use several hypervisors, including KVM/QEMU, and it works great.

      There’s several other clients for libvirt, including GNOME Boxes, Cockpit (web based), and virsh (CLI).

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      • swelter_spark@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Boxes is very well-organized and easy to use.

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    • Damage@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Virt-manager works ok

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