VMware's obedience to an almost-inexistent-yet-abusive competitor may have something to do with a recent appointment.
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Why does this matter?
Assuming VMware is being controlled by Microsoft to provide a lesser experience on GNU/Linux, why does it matter? Isn't VMware already proprietary software? Doesn't the user acceptance of VMware already mean that users are subjugated into helplessness?
Even if the accusations are true, the user subjugating nature of VMware means that users are helpless to help themselves as they wish. The important issue is that users of VMware cannot live in freedom by the fact that VMware is freedom removing software.
Microsoft usurping control over VMware will do nothing to improve the users' freedom - all it would do is change masters. Whether the master is Microsoft or Adobe, Nintendo or Konami, they are all the same in the fact that they control the users' freedom. You cannot live in freedom whenever you accept proprietary software.