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Ars Technica reports

In the last few years, virtual machines have gone from an interesting intellectual exercise and shortcut for testing software to a powerful method of optimizing the power and performance of server hardware. With everyone from Microsoft to IBM to various Linux vendors jumping on board the VM bandwagon, Apple stood alone in giving virtualization the cold shoulder: the end-user license agreements for Mac OS X were very specific: one Macintosh, one copy of the OS. All this has changed with the release of Leopard Server, which now allows virtualization.

If anything, this again tells me free software is far superior above anything else—I am free to use it in any way I see it fit (Freedom 0). No unconstitutional, yet-to-be-court-challenged EULA stopping me every step of the way. Proprietary software vendors presume to have some sort of “right” to control every aspect of my life. Is there anything more immoral?

On a side note, if you are going to run it on a server, why the heck would you run OS X? Assuming it’s a server accessed by usual protocols (HTTP, SSH, etc.), I don’t see what more OS X offers that’s not offered by any other flavor of Unix, and hence GNU/Linux systems. But then, if people want to ride unicycles around in a plane, what’s to stop them?