VMware VS VirtualBox
Derek Broughton
derek at pointerstop.ca
Mon Mar 23 17:40:22 UTC 2009
Nils Kassube wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Nils Kassube wrote:
>> > While you can download the PUEL
>> > version for free, you may not use it for regular commercial
>> > installation.
>
>> > You can read the full lisence here:
>> > <http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL>
>>
>> I read that license, and couldn't find anything that said I couldn't
>> use it on a commercial installation, so I asked Sun, and they told me
>> I could. I thought I'd posted the response here, before...
>
> Yes, now I remember that you posted it some time ago - my bad. Obviously
> my interpretation of the term "personal use" was wrong.
I wouldn't say that - just that Sun's definition of Personal Use is
_awfully_ vague. While the hardware I was looking to install on was
actually a university owned machine, it's being cost-shared by various
organizations so I just decided to ask them about Commercial use and got a
surprising answer...
--
derek
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