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No, FOSS developers will not help much because the product is VMWare View. It's specifically for thin client makers.
by tsetse-fly 18y ago
No, FOSS developers will not help much because the product is VMWare View. It's specifically for thin client makers.
- jacquesm 18y agoyes, I realized that. I see this as a 'trial balloon', if it works for them I would hope that they will release more.
- tsetse-fly 18y agoThis 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.