I'd rather not waste my time on nostalgia. I'd rather spend it on hindsight. - Edward Felten
Source: From his talk at U.S. v. Microsoft, 10 Years Later, at Harvard University (from my own notes.. no transcript)
While VMware is in use (http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/cern.html), the primary configuration for machines in the LHC computing grid (http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/) is based on Scientific Linux distribution running directly on the hardware. This grid is used to receive and distribute the 15PB of data across the 100,000s of CPUs across the world. - Tim, a commenter writing from a CERN IP address to an InternetNews.com story on the Large Hadron Collider
<http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/09/large-hadron-collider---powere.html>
"Our commitment to Linux has not changed...What's changed is that customers will no longer be able to order Lenovo ThinkPads and ThinkCentres with pre-installed Linux via the lenovo.com Web site." - Ray Gorman, Lenovo spokesman, in an email to Computerworld
<http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=hardware&articleId=9114485&taxonomyId=12&intsrc=kc_top>
Apple views tennis-shoe DRM as a way to head off what it sees as a potential plague of sneaker hacking. - Nicholas G. Carr
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/09/apple_declares.php