Oh cool, that's not a story I'm familiar with. I went and googled for the answer I was about to ask:
"In his short story "A Slight Case of Sunstroke", Arthur C. Clarke writes of a stadium full of disgruntled soccer fans barbecueing the dishonest referee by reflecting sunlight on him with mirrors found under their seats."

Easy means you don't have to ever wonder if this file needs the PC turned on, it means not having to keep yet another program uptodate when updates come out, and it means not having to do any of the tiny little steps you're forgetting to tell us. You sound like a poweruser though so to you it seems really easy, but for those who just want the easiest solution it's not good enough. Easy is buying a movie off of iTunes and it always plays when clicking Play. Always. The first time it doesn't, for practically any reason at all, it starts becoming a burden.

So that's, what, eight years ago? You had a problem with a genre of drivers notorious for being problematic (network issues have always been a constant pain), on a platform known for its millions of hardware combinations? And they got it wrong with your specific combination, oh woe is them... maybe it's time to kiss and make up?

I don't really care what you do man, and I'm not saying my rephrasing of your problem is any more "right" than what you posted. It just sounds like maybe its time to revisit your feelings and test if the underlying reasons remain valid. Maybe, just maybe, Microsoft's VM department really do want to give their customers the best Linux experience possible. Sounds like basic business to me, so I imagine the drivers will work pretty well for what they're for.

Huh, how interesting. I don't believe I'd want to use your system.

You're right that abstract categories and open ended text-fields can make for vague and deceitful answers, but... that's the person you're seeing reflected in the text! I want to read that person, I want to see how she describes herself or her interests. Or how she doesn't. Some girls are shy in their texts, and that says something too right?

It doesn't matter if you start off at a bar/party/box social or via text. I've gotten mails that completely fail to interest me and I'm sure I've sent them out as well. Just as I've been at parties where my smile freezes as I realize what an idiot I am and/or she is. It's as difficult to spot the crazies in text as it is in real life, but that's not really a problem per se. That's human nature. Making everything quantifiable strikes me as an engineer's attempt at a solution (no offense intended, some of my best friends are engineers :).

If I wanted the scientific approach to women I'd build my own robot, I actually prefer the little blurbs of handwritten text that let me analyze between the lines. I think of it as a richer way of communication than just a straight up list of facts*. But that's me, I have faith in my ability to parse meaningful metadata from text and voice. To others it might seem like white noise, so to each their own I suppose.

* With that said I do love being able to define "no smoking" as an easy filter rule. Good riddance!

Convertible?

I'm calling complete and utter bullshit on that. What has their copying *really* cost you? Nothing. Nothing at all, even in the slightest. Your statement is way too fanatical.

I'm not personally against the concept of copyright and I sympathize that the license of your product is being violated, but you're going to have to get out of doing digital products if you don't want your shit copied.