I do something similar to what this person does (sell software to buyers), but she absolutely chose to work for this company. If I was expected to demo something like this I would refuse. She didn’t.

What expense? Adding one more thing to track about you, especially something they already know and essentially just need to verify, cannot be that expensive.

CDDL not mentioned. Have fun illumos!

It’s not a real ThinkPad if it doesn’t have a keyboard frontlight.

Edit: Downvoting this joke is proof that I have more ThinkPad cred than you.

Yeah, this entire project falls apart when you factor in that people actually use the software they’re hosting. I guess minimum requirements are good to know, but this seems of limited real-world use.