[hardwaresofton]

I just want to note that I was likely still exasperated from the defeat of not being able to install ES properly (which was likely my own fault as many others have been able to install it just fine), and this post should be taken with a grain of salt.

People are hard at work on ES and they're sharing their progress with the OSS community (the background behind X-Pack aside), and maintaining an OSS version and I'm grateful to them for that.