VMware doesn’t plan to embrace open source anytime soon

Quoting from The Register:

This is all a long way of saying that VMware tolerates nonsense in its offices but not in its code. Greene flat out dismissed our proposal that the company fly the freak flag by open sourcing its flagship code.

“There is still a lot of innovation going into our hypervisor,” Greene told us. “As long as there is a lot of innovation going in, (open source) is not the right model.

“What we want to do is fund ourselves to be able to build new stuff. If you’re purely open source, there is no way you can do new stuff.”…

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