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Re: VMWare for Debian?



On Friday 04 August 2006 18:12, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Friday 04 August 2006 14:39, Carl Fink wrote:
> > > Now that FSW is in the process of freeing VMWare Server (it's already
> > > free of charge, and they plan to release the source, in some vague
> > > sense not made clear on their web site), is anyone beginning to think
> > > about a Debian package of it?
> >
> > Probably not until after it's free by Debian's definition.
>
> That would apply to having source packages, but why couldn't there be
> something like the acroread and flashplugin-nonfree packages?

Ah, probably because nobody's made a package to do that yet?  Ultimately, I 
would hope the vendor would do this themselves, but that could be expecting 
too much.

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