Free software often times means it is support free...
It must be that "car wreck" morbid curiosity that made me read this thread, but (I got it for $39.99) even if it had been $79 it would still be worth not needing to boot into XP and lose my OS X tools to do so. Be glad that several folk such as myself lived through a few bumps to get to the 1.0, now that it is here I look forward to the next release because I know it will have a great list of improvements, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth $79 today. And what makes you think VMWare is going to give away the system to allow you to do this for free? They aren't a charity organization or open source project, they are going to want some fee, and rightly so. Free software is typically support free, while I use this software for a business purpose, I paid for it, and I expect some support when it is needed.
I hope VMWare's tool is awesome, because that means Parallels will become even better as well, competition is good for us the users, features are developed to attract our loyalty and attention and we all enjoy better products. If you can't stomach $79 there is always Qemu.
Last edited: Jul 21, 2006