Um, Richard Stallman is a crazy person. I'm all for free and open source software, and I use a fair bit of it, but I also understand that there are people out there that might want to make money from their hard work. What's brilliant is that you have a choice: you can either find free and open source software, or you can choose to pay those people. Either way, the scenario Stallman paints in that asinine "Right to Read" piece will not happen. People need to stop listening to crazy people like him.

IIRC, the free version of ESXi has some weird memory restrictions that make it not very useful for larger enterprise setups, but otherwise I think you're right.

While every environment varies, we've been running a three-node Hyper-V cluster with an iSCSI SAN backend for three years, and it's never crashed. To compare setups, we have 10TB of storage on our SAN, and two Internet connections, with all the network infrastructure one would expect to find between those Internet connections and the cluster. The cluster currently runs 17 Windows servers (from 2003 through 2008 R2) and four Linux servers. We also have one standalone Hyper-V host with DAS storage running an additional four Windows servers and two Linux servers. Your comment about Hyper-V being absolute crap is maybe a bit overstated. Just my two cents.

I work at a non-profit, and we went with Hyper-V about three years ago because of the licensing. Microsoft almost gives away their products to non-profits, and you still get support. For us, it was a no-brainer. I've worked with VMWare also, and I don't really feel we're missing anything. I have an assortment of Windows, Ubuntu, and CentOS servers, and everything works the way it's supposed to for us. Just my two cents.

Would be for Apple to let us virtualize OS X server on our existing (insert VM platform of your choosing) clusters, instead of requiring Apple hardware. I had an Apple rep tell me the other day that they have that requirement because the experience is better on their hardware (when talking about a server that sits in a rack that you never look at). What a joke.

Is anyone really all that interested in a game that started out as a Quake mod in 2001? Anyone other than open source bigots who are excited that they can play a game and it's totally free?

Except that he specifically said the ribbon UI. He then goes on to talk about giving up on Office 97 about a year ago, which calls further into doubt that he ever tried Office 2007. Face it, this person is a dirty troll. I don't mind someone having a legitimate beef with something, but I'm sick and tired of the people that just jump on the bashing bandwagon and have never even tried a product.

You clearly don't use Office 2007, or are a moron. Outlook 2007 is the single Office 2007 application that DOESN'T use the ribbon interface. That apparently won't happen until Office 2010.

Not sure foreign sites are relevant to the fact that the South Carolina AG is calling the South Carolina site a criminal enterprise. Who knows, the laws may be entirely different in foreign countries regarding how Craigslist can and cannot deal with postings on its site.

I got called for jury the other day, and I put my iPhone and my MSI Wind (with webcam) down right in front of the security guards and they let me walk right through. Maybe our court house isn't quite as intense...

As soon as I read the summary I wondered if it had anything to do with Anathem, or vice versa. Definitely enjoyed the book.

"There are two options here:
Option 1) This is Ziff-Davis MSFT flamebait.
Option 2) The author of the piece is an idiotic fuck who screwed up his install."

Option 3) This reply was written in typical Mac fanboy style. The only real answer is that Apple's software is perfect, and any problems are clearly the fault of the person using their software, because it "just works."