Sharing files between Ubuntu 6.06 and Windows XP Pro - best disk format to use

[Derek Broughton]

Eric Dunbar wrote:

>>
>> Possibly - who reads EULAs :-)  Probably 95% of VMWare users have no
>> intention of ever using it as a server (your situation obviously being
>> different).
> 
> 
> That's almost certainly true (I read maybe 1/20 EULAs).
> 
> [rant -- nothing implied about you or anyone else who's posted in this
> [thread]
> 
> However, given that there are some people (using VMware) in the OSS
> community who vehemently defend Ubuntu/GNU as being in the right for
> rejecting licence x, y or z as not being this or that (or compatible
> with licence a, b or c) they MUST acknowledge and respect any
> licencing restrictions placed upon the use of VMware Player by its
> creator.

True, but I also expect that any package accepted into Ubuntu be
_essentially_ free (I know that multiverse specifically accepts packages
that are not free enough for Debian, but afaik they still have to permit
unrestricted usage by the user on a single system).  Perhaps I expect too
much from Ubuntu...
-- 
derek