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		dijit 48 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware... Are you under the impression that VMware is free open source software?

amelius 47 days ago [–]

Yes, I was, actually.

dijit 47 days ago | [–]

fair enough, you're one of today's (un)lucky 10,000! (https://xkcd.com/1053/)

VMWare has always been proprietary, there's been some handwringing a few times about the fact that they borrow from FOSS quite a bit.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-developer-abandons-vmwar...

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