Managers beg you "what can I put in the fridge?!" It's not a one way street because manager is just as fearful of losing engineers as engineers enjoy the perks.
So you are saying to use a different tool to be fast but to use name for feature detection... Nmap is pretty darn fast if you disable feature detection!
Huh? The article describes a massive system and there is a lot of abstraction here, are you suggesting Pivotal was a part of the large abstraction or just grabbing credit for some minor part?
> What's there to protect that they work so hard to guard it?
A talking point is that closed systems make piracy harder which makes for a more captive group of buyers. Again, just a talking point, we don't have enough comparable data to study.
I find this style of commenting passive aggressive... "Nobody has pointed out this great fact?! I guess I will be forced to do it." Just lead with "This is BitFury..." we don't need to know how annoying it is for you to have to post this.