Timeline for Deprecating [tag:vmware] in favour of specific software tags
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| Jun 26, 2014 at 10:46 | comment | added | Braiam | @unorthodoxgrammar age is not a excuse to leave a tag alone, it's already abused, serves no propose, and that the site will never have a perfect array of tags doesn't mean we can't try. Your last idea is ridiculous, and I already said why. The Right Thing To Do™ is just removing the tag, plain and simple. Why having a tag that alone can't be and the tag excerpt itself recognize it? Is like having [microsoft], [microsoft-office] and [microsoft-office-excel] for questions about excel. Just overkill. | |
| Jun 26, 2014 at 6:45 | comment | added | please delete me | @Braiam It is true that company tags have high potential for abuse, but this isn't a new tag being proposed. It's been here for years. Unless it's already got an abuse problem why pre-emptively get rid of it? I agree with you that company tags aren't the most useful, but I'm sure some part of the community does like them, or they wouldn't have made them. The site's tags will never be 100% all nice and neat, because everyone has different opinions on what is/isn't useful. Keep in mind that the tag description shows vmware-whatever tags which may help inform people not to make[vmware]+[whatever] | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 14:59 | comment | added | Braiam | Company tags are most of the time outright wrongly used, and that's why they are discouraged/prohibited. VMware as sole tag on a question doesn't make sense and it's certain that vmware-* would be more useful. Also, this promotes the creation of [vmware] + [player] tags instead of [vmware-player] | |
| Jun 23, 2014 at 23:08 | comment | added | please delete me | @Jobin There are some differences aside from licensing between the VMware Player versions, but it sounds like they are minor. I haven't found much documentation about it. The VMware Player that comes with VMware Workstation requires it be installed on the same machine as Workstation, the other versions can't be installed on machines running Workstation? The plus version supports "restricted virtual machines", "unattended installation", and the ability to "hide unwanted features". I doubt there are enough specific questions to justify multiple VMware Player tags at this time though. | |
| Jun 23, 2014 at 4:46 | comment | added | jobin | I am not sure about VMware Player Plus, but other than the licencing issue, tag:vmware-player could be used for both instances: for commercial and non-commercial purpose, if there are no functional differences in the software. I am still open to the discussion on tag:vmware. Coupling esx and esxi together under tag:vmware-esx should be fine. | |
| Jun 23, 2014 at 3:18 | comment | added | jobin |
For Example "VMware" is typically in the name of their products, but often you will read one article that says "VMware Whatever", and then another that just says "Whatever". You may even see this within the same article! It is very much akin to Google Search, Google and Search; nothing wrong with that.
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| Jun 23, 2014 at 1:33 | comment | added | please delete me | I swear on all that I love when I looked earlier there was no "virtualization" tag, but apparently it's been there since 2011. So I'm happy :) | |
| Jun 23, 2014 at 0:27 | history | edited | please delete me | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
VMware Player Section Now has sources
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| Jun 23, 2014 at 0:14 | history | edited | please delete me | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
VMware Player Section Added
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| Jun 23, 2014 at 0:05 | history | answered | please delete me | CC BY-SA 3.0 |