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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, unsolicited wrote:

>
> Robert P. J. Day wrote, On 8/19/2007 11:20 AM:
> >   as a followup to my earlier post on vmware player not installing
> > properly on a fully-updated fedora 7, i'm interested in others'
> > opinions on how annoyed i should be about this.  or whether i have
> > the right to be annoyed at all.
>
> You're coming from the 'wrong' perspective. themselves to coming out
> with Linux versions of everything.

...

> One of the things they, like many others, have struggled with is
> just what distros to support, let alone how recent.

we're not talking about which *distros* to support, we're talking
about which *kernels* to support.  and, as i pointed out, vmware is
now significantly behind the curve as they *still* don't have a
version of vmware player that is compatible with 2.6.22, the current
*stable* kernel.  that strikes me as a fairly major failing, given
that they've had *four months* to take a fairly minor change into
account.

> And being closely tied to the kernel, they are wary of bleed-out on
> being bleeding edge, ...

please stop saying that.  the latest, official, stable release of the
linux kernel in no way qualifies as "bleeding edge."  what part of
that is so confusing?

... large snip here ...

> Pardon me, but your indignance is sounding like someone who didn't
> get their ice cream. Like you are entitled. And typically people
> don't react very well to that.
>
> Cheers.
>
> -- Bill

thanks ever so much for your professional and thoughtful opinion,
bill.  i'll be sure to give it all the consideration it deserves.

rday
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