VMware Fusion and Workstation are now free.
I bought them legally for the first time ... on April 6th.
That's what I get for doing the right thing. I won't make that mistake again.
@miki@simon The fact that there was no such thing as Fusion player, so on Mac it was basically workstation or nothing, is kind of shitty, so that's nice, but also it has competition now.
@x0@simon Didn't it always? I don't think blind people used Parallels before the ARM transition, just because Fusion was more accessible, but it was always there and preferred by many. It goes back to classic Mac OS I think.
@x0@simon I seem to recall that Apple had some offers where they bundled "Parallels Virtual PC" or something similarly named with the Mac, so that you could run Windows (or was that DOS) under emulation. This was in the 90's I think. They used to do the game console thing where you could often buy a Mac with some third-party software already in the box as a promotion.
@miki@simon Ah, it's one of those free for personal use and continuously licensed for commercial use deals. You'd still use this to connect to something like SXi, after all. I imagine most people that would have been using it for personal use were pirating it where they could, and the ones that weren't didn't provide a real difference compared to the enterprise, so they just said fuck it.
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