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Re:A Tribute to VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Hosted UI by ozyx on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @05:38PM (#10984130)
And you don't know what you're talking about.

1. VMware was giving out a free product too (Player).

2. As chipx86 pointed out on his blog post, VMware Workstation and Fusion were profitable.

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Re:A Tribute to VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Hosted UI by Swannie on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @07:39PM (#10984907)
Player was crippled, to prompt purchase of Workstation.

Many people I know who were serious about managing their VMs virtual networks were using Virtual Box.

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Re:A Tribute to VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Hosted UI by chipx86 on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @09:07PM (#10985569)
Player wasn't crippled. It just served a different purpose. It was never meant to be on the same level as VirtualBox or anything, and existed to be a simple "run this VM" application.
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