[apsurd]

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

[ironkeith]

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. ;)

[svlla]

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

[lovskogen]

He could have gotten Virtualbox.

[Kliment]

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

[evilduck]

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.

[zoomzoom]

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

[apsurd]

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.

[dagw]

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