Oh... So you equate the french with the king.
Dig deeper.

A) Are you not aware of what the word "may" means?
B) English constitutional monarchy had a lot of stages, I never said which stage I was referring to.
Therefore I am confounding nothing

A) You're confounding democracy with freedom. It's the same mistake people make when they talk about capitalism, while thinking of free market. Or socialism/communism and totalitarianism/dictatorship.
B) Freedom may wear a crown. Remember that constitutional monarchy failed in France, yet England's monarchy was/is very much like a constitutional monarchy(it's limited by many laws, yet there is no formal "constitution"). The constitution of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was written by the king!

TFA is not about the particular case. It's about the principle, that has been confirmed and can be cited for consideration.

It's not "big government", it's "unpopular decisions". The EU isn't that big.

Yep. The kicker to the article is that a professional C# developer finds that Java is actually faster!

Mono VM faster than Java VM? I'd like to see those benchmarks.

Anything beats Eclipse for OotB, it's the customizability of that box...

FYI: CLR VM does do hot spot optimizations, they are not as good as Java VM's but still...

Can you imagine how much web developers would be paid if they actually did this kind of stuff? This particular feature is highly irrelevant to web development, because web developers(server-side web developers, obviously) don't write the servers they are using. They only deliver the final functionality to the end user. The code is largely easily written in sequential and independent blocks with the database being the sync point.

Except that it does not solve the shared data access issues, the thing that makes it hard to write parallel code. Also Java 8 is 8 months away and has similar constructs.

But hey, if I want to have a very scalable solution I'll just use Scala.

And I've been a professional Java developer for 13 years and have routinely seen Tomcat deployed on Windows(prod, QA and dev).

When it comes to public health - it's a little bit more than just a contract between the employer and employee.

Except that branded laptops Windows is fully licensed. Sure they reinstall a "better" version of Windows, but it's still a Windows license sold...
Also, it would take a massive effort to create a general purpose smartphone that could get any OS installed on it.

PS: Samsung is the biggest player in Chinese smartphone market. Making iOS portable would change nothing...

China and India don't have that much of an issue with mobile broadband... US on the other hand.

I'm sure most don't know or care what apps are. There are many iPhone users that don;t care for apps as well... But when the legions of Android users start exploring their smartphones they are not going to just switch to iOS...

Not only do you have to worry about processors, screen ratio, resolution and anything else hardware related.

I suspect that you're not an Android app developer. Because hardware related issues aren't the one's that you listed...