Entrepreneur, investor and Open Source pioneer Brian Berliner (whose blog is a must-subscribe, by the way) discovered that not all applications run on virtual machines. After winning a Posit Science Brain Fitness Program Classic, Brian found out that besides having an unnecessary long name, the program doesn’t run on VMware Fusion, which he installed on his Mac computer.
Anyone have a good answer to his question about why some developers forbid running apps on virtual machines? What’s the difference anyway?
Update: Brian received a comment from a Posit Science rep who lets us know the program runs under Boot Camp and Parallels, and that they’re expecting to release a Mac version by the end of the year.
Excellent example of how companies should treat customers who use blog and social networks to voice their opinions!
Also, check out the comment from Joe on this post, who gave a lengthy and most likely completely correct answer to the technical side of the matter.