Darl.

I do. Call me back when you've done better.

Did you READ the story? The proposed law does not allow GOVERNMENTS to restrict sales to online retailers that have brick-and-mortar shops. It allows SUPPLIERS to allow their goods to be sold only by online retailers who have brick-and-mortar stores.

Since suppliers should be free to control who sells their products in any way they choose that does not violate protected-class laws, they should be free to do so. Hell, they should be free to allow their products only to be sold by companies whose names start with an S, or stores on the odd-numbered side of the street.

Eisenhower was not a conservative -- certainly not by modern standards. Nor was Nixon. Both of them would be moderate-to-liberal Republicans -- to the left of the rightmost Democrats -- today. (And believers in the humane policies you damn as "income redistribution," as well.)

It's interesting how you retroactively adopt them to make a point.

Wow - how many inaccuracies can you pack into one comment?!

Xen itself - including not just the hypervisor but the kernel code needed for dom0 and for paravirtualized domU - is GPL licensed, and always has been. What Citrix (NOT Cisco) recently open-sourced was the control stack used in he commercial XenServer. There has always been an open-source control stack -- it has been possible to run a Xen system entirely using GPL licensed code. The only change in October 2009 was to make the management APIs compatible between the commercial and open-source offerings.

(And the "owned by Citrix" part is open to debate too. XenSource -- a company -- was bought by Citrix -- not Xen -- a code base. The licensing status of the code is the same as it ever was. Its direction is driven by an advisory board that includes representatives of Citrix and lots of other companies.)

And Citrix XenApp does multiples fine - up to 8, I think.

Eliminate property ownership and there will be no theft, for that matter. Eliminate laws against murder and there will be no murderers, only people who kill.

There is no guarantee of payment, true. But then, there's no guarantee of your right to access the art, either.

Marathon has had it working on Xen for quite a while.

The Veritas failure was JWT's alone -- the useless Gary Bloom notwithstanding. Symantec acquired a company with a solid lead in most of its markets and a track record in enterprise sales, then starved all of the oxygen out of it, allowed its products to stagnate, then did an "I told you so" and cut it even further.