[kwlug disc.] vmware and fedora and corporate responsibility -- what's the deal?

[Chris Frey]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 11:20:12AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   the fact that vmware knew (should have known?) about this issue over
> four months ago and did nothing about it, causing grief for numerous
> users upon release of a new kernel, strikes me as just plain bad
> quality assurance.  but i'm willing to be convinced otherwise.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to be annoyed.  If a company like
VMware or Nvidia want to leverage an open source kernel and yet keep
their main code proprietary, the least they can do is keep their
kernel interface code up to date.

I had run into this problem a while back, and basically left VMware
alone for a while, since I had other things to do.  I'm amazed and
dismayed that it is not fixed yet.

- Chris