____/ Linonut on Thursday 27 December 2007 12:55 : \____
> * Roy Schestowitz fired off this tart reply:
>
>> The GigaOM Interview: Dr. Mendel Roseblum, Chief Scientist, VMWare
>>
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>>| It took a lot longer than I thought it would take. We released it first on
>>| the Linux platform, because we felt the Linux community would adopt it much
>>| faster. That proved to be a good move.
>> `----
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>> http://gigaom.com/2007/12/26/vmware-mendel-roseblum-interview/
>>
>
> "I was a professor at Stanford University and we were building a
> supercomputer ... My grad students who worked with me on the project
> thought we could commercialize the technology, and in 1998 we
> launched VMWare."
>
> Sounds to me like an de facto government subsidy for a new business.
> What is Stanford U's stake in this? Or is this like "open-source"?
Good questions. Standford also have rights associated with PageRank (Google),
but it's unlikely to assert anything. VMWare actually has strong roots in
Linux, with GPL violations too, apparently. But... consider this another
company that rose thanks to Free software. Google is another.
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