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3.0 Already? Wasn't just sometime ago 2.3 the newest? While VirtualBox is really great I like OSE (OpenSourceEdition) better. Unfortunately if one needs e.g. u

• gaius 17y ago
  Probably when the developers are so rich they don't need money for food or rent.
  • jeduan 17y ago
    Wont they be working at Oracle soon?
    • gaius 17y ago
      Maybe. Or maybe Oracle will stick with its own Xen-derived OracleVM.
    • ciupicri 17y ago
      And you think that uncle Larry will make them rich?
  • w1ntermute 17y ago
    Not to mention that there's nothing preventing a 3rd party from developing an open source patch implementing support for this very feature.
    • fatdog789 17y ago
      Sure there is: lack of expertise. Also, unfamiliarity with the code base. For people without programming experience, there's also the opportunity cost of learning a programming language. The reason open source hasn't taken off with the general public is b/c every time a non-programmer suggests a genuinely useful feature (to non-programmers), the response is: "it's open source, program it yourself." Most often, the easier and cheaper path is to just buy the competing commercial program.
      • w1ntermute 17y ago
        I'm not really sure what your point is here…the feature is _already_ available in closed-source form. I was merely pointing out that its presence and that of an open source implementation are not mutually exclusive simply because the closed source version was developed by the same people who developed and released the source for the rest of VirtualBox.