On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 21:35, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > Can you or can you not use the VMware image without VMWare player? . If > it cannot be used with a proprietary application then the vmware image > is proprietary. I thought I had seen something about the disk image being the same as those for qemu but was never motivated enough to find out what that means. > It might be available for gratis or you might able to > backup or redistribute it even but as long as the content in the image > is unusable without a proprietary application it is definitely a > proprietary piece of software. Is a tar image proprietary because you have to load it back on proprietary hardware before it runs again? I'd expect a tar<->vmware file converter to be possible and don't see a lot of difference in principle. > Thats the best I can explain it. I am not > sure anybody here is going to support your argument that somehow VMWare > images are non proprietary. I will drop this discussion here since I > dont have anything further to explain on this particular issue. Thanks As long as someone else does a good job of maintaining the images it doesn't really matter. If they don't, perhaps we could skirt the notion that copying onto a certain file format somehow makes the content proprietary by having a person with fedora expertise supply a kickstart file and a script of yum commands to build and maintain something that would give a desirable first impression of the current state of the project. Someone who isn't offended by free-as-in-gratis can do the rest without knowing what the ideal fedora setup of the day looks like or how to build it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
