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Re:VMware has open sourced their client for virtual desktop by jacquesm on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @04:09AM (#465478)
I'm sure VMware has been studying netscape vs microsoft with a very good spyglass and they've decided to let this trial balloon go up to see if they can harness the oss community to help them out.

It's very much appreciated that they did this, let's hope that they will do more!

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Re:VMware has open sourced their client for virtual desktop by tsetse-fly on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @04:15AM (#465484)
No, FOSS developers will not help much because the product is VMWare View. It's specifically for thin client makers.
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Re:VMware has open sourced their client for virtual desktop by jacquesm on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @04:47AM (#465510)
yes, I realized that. I see this as a 'trial balloon', if it works for them I would hope that they will release more.
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Re:VMware has open sourced their client for virtual desktop by tsetse-fly on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @02:48PM (#466351)
This is not in anyway a trial with open source software. FOSS developers work on software that they're familiar with. I doubt very many of them own thin client hardware. They also don't like proprietary software and on the other end of this client is VMWare's closed-source server software.

VMWare is open sourcing this product because thin clients tend to run on exotic hardware and they want to allow manufacturers to easily port and install their client. That ensures that they'll be locked into VMWare's server product.

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