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Re:VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation by tw04 on Thursday March 05, 2015 @08:58PM (#9155148)
Out of curiosity - if GPL is taken so seriously, why do customers have to jump through so many hoops to get copies of source. Last I checked you are required to send a letter via snailmail to legal counsel @vmware and if they deem you worthy, they send back physical media with copies of the source.

I can't imagine a less open-source friendly system...

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Re:VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation by travem on Friday March 06, 2015 @02:54AM (#9156054)
If you want a copy of the source you can get it via the Open Source tab on most VMware products download page. You'll find the open source distributed for ESXi under the VMware vSphere Open Source group on this page -> https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_...

It doesn't require a snail mail letter as far as I can tell.

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Re:VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation by delinka on Thursday March 05, 2015 @09:38PM (#9155277)
It's not required to be "friendly" nor is it required to be convenient for you. It's designed to be compliant, internally audit-able, and for free they get the ability to frustrate you into not requesting copies.
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Re:VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation by Igglyboo on Thursday March 05, 2015 @09:59PM (#9155338)
It is taken as seriously as is has to be. They are required to provide the source, they are not required to make obtaining the source a pleasant experience.
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