Hello sea! Thanks a lot! I do know about virtual box for example and I appreciate your response I believe the main reason I cited vmware was to show that they request personal information for you to use their product... But mainly, I may want to probably have one machine totally configured or at least ready for just linux access in a safer way next to my Windows machine.

That's because some search for examples are too personal, even small things, for instance, why should anyone know what cream do you want to use or what razor you generally buy and make money out of it? And I am only talking about the tip of the iceberg (hyperbole?) of possible uses for information...

Thanks again!

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Yes, yes, I agree, those are the kind of customers that vmware has in the most part. But as you can see my response to sea, the use of vmware requires registration, something must be behind it. Some kind of control of information, that's obvious (the question is why and what does the info can end up, willingly or not). (even the free non-comercial version has this request for info)

And that is not necessary theorically, because others don't do (this request for info), but of course not only because of that, it is as clear as clean water that it is not necessary not even for their business purposes. The important thing is to have a good software that a lot of people use (and companies also).

But even it being a big issue to mess with corporate information, for another company to do or allow it somehow we do know that it is not impossible. And that doesn't mean (unfortunately) that because it is wrong, or unethical, that it won't be done by some kind of people or association.

There are some informations that I believe you've encountered and read or heard about backdoors on MS OS's for examples. Absolutely that shouldn't be different for corporative clients as the system build is basically the same. And Windows goes on on the market. Mainly perhaps because of how easy it is to deal with (the system). And depending on the case even Ubuntu (that is more and more caring about money) or other unix basic system can't be totally trusted. The ideal thing is to know programming and networks to really infer if a system is safe and spread the word to those who doesn't know those stuff. If there is time to do this (for someone I mean)... and even so, something may have not been seen in time. Like in unix system that ghost problem that happened (how many people did know about that if any? Was that on purpose (the existence or the fact that it was not informed before and corrected?) )

So, basically, what I mean is, that is not because it would be wrong, unethical and possibly cause a bad image if discovered that some people and/or companies won't act in that direction. By my point of view it is basically a moral issue.