Totally, because those companies are completely cutting into CSIRO's wireless networking hardware business. My CSIRO wireless router is awesome, and it works great with the CSIRO wireless car-
Oh, wait...
See, this one reason is why I don't pay much attention to the news. Let's play up the absurdity of the the seemingly inconsequential act that got someone in what appears to be an inappropriately severe amount of trouble, and be sure to leave out any useful context.
It's like running a story with the headline, "Man sentenced to eight years in prison for driving with a broken tail light!!" and leaving out the fact that, oh by the way, he was also wanted for armed robbery. (Not that reporters would write a story like that.) (Maybe.)
Yeah, for a long time I've thought that part of the problem is (and sorry about this, I know it will rub some people the wrong way) that FOSS is being developed almost solely by developers. I'm sure that sounds silly
That's exactly the reason for the differences between FOSS and proprietary software - there's a non-trivial set of "other stuff" that's required to take a piece of software from a sort-of-useful but maybe buggy implementation to a polished application that provides a solid end-to-end user experience.
Things like market research into what your potential users actually want, high-level UI design, usability studies, deliberate architecting, and a significant test infrastructure are practically *required* in commercial software design, but I don't know if they get the same emphasis in FOSS.
Divisions in sport are totally arbitrary and the point of them is to match individuals or teams of nearly equal ability so that the outcomes of their contests are maximally uncertain and therefore, entertaining for both the observers and the participants. Nobody wants to watch a game where they already know who will win. Likewise, the athletes don't want to compete in a contest they're sure to lose.
Even if this "female" turns out to be an actual chick, it doesn't matter. If she's "too good" for her arbitrary division (which in this case happens to be by gender), then she will be excluded from it.
the back-end rendering engine would still be there since so many other applications depend on it. So I guess it's more hidden than actually removed.
How is that "hidden"?
Using your logic, *no* application is ever actually removed then since the dlls that handle tasks common to other similar applications remain. Office isn't really uninstalled, it's just "hidden" because text-rendering components remain. Games aren't really uninstalled because graphics rendering dlls remain.
The European Commission has added another 899m ($1.35bn) to the fine Microsoft must pay for failing to comply with the original anti-trust ruling in 2004. The fine covers the period from the 2004 decision to 22 October, 2007.
Multi-billion euro fines link Choice quote from that:
The latest punishment brings the total of fines to just under 1.7 billion ($2.6 billion)
Seriously, just Google the stuff.
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.