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wait ... so why did you buy it then?

I genuinely like the software, and they emailed me a $10 off promo the day before my trial expired. The entire process leading up to the purchase was top notch.

Oh, and I didn't know there was a free, quality alternative until shortly after. A painfully bad checkout is the price I pay for being too lazy to do any research. ;)

so you think if you buy you can't have complaints? interesting world you must live in.

He could have gotten Virtualbox.

With the uncertain future that comes from being managed by Oracle now.

Not totally uncertain, there's the GPL'd version which contains almost all the functionality non-commercial desktop users would require (except USB 2.0 device speeds). Oracle can derail VirtualBox the trademark, but they can't prevent a fork.

To be fair, so far virtual box has moved ahead pretty well under oracle.

I would not support a business of which I had these sentiments:

It is a shameless, low class, money grab. (twice)

It’s another tasteless scam formulated by a greedy, customer hostile executive tool.

Surely there are competitors in the marketplace?

We vote with our dollars.

The competitor is VMWare, which it seems is just as bad.

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