I am seeing no place on myvmware to register the copy... the only place I see that seems to know about my download is the download history where it's spelled out in detail... "
VMware-ESXi-5.0.0-Update3-1311175-HP-5.42.10-Oct2013.iso
327M |
Release Date 2013-10-17"
No links to a key or to register it. Thanks to both weinstein5 and abhilash for looking at this... seems like we're close and I'm encouraged to find out it really is free.