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Comment The world would be a better place with less XP (Score 1) 577

Microsoft would have stop selling and supporting XP after 5 years. Off the top of my head most Linux distros support for 2-3 years, some 5, and redhat has the new 10. For that reason I had to change what I tell people to use from Ubuntu 6.06 to Centos 5. I know this is apples to oranges, but I like apples and oranges.

How would the 5 years effect source code? Would this allow people to just use Linux 2.4 or what ever is 5+ years old and sell things without having to show their new source? I would foresee a forking of code coming if ip expired after 5 years.

Comment Re:Wait, Vmware code stolen from China Military (Score 0) 109

They want virtualization to grow. Shareing their code with other people working in the virtualization industry improves code both ways. Here they are talking about people who have little reason to improve the industry. The code can be used to censer people. Like Nuke power. It can be used for good. Bad people could use it for good too, but they are more likely to use for evil.

Comment Re:re-root them to .icann (Score 1) 86

How about we ask them to reopen the tld submitting, and make a kickstarter project for a new root domain.

.onion

point your systems to the new root, and everyone starts over. all sub-domains of the .onion root can only be accessed by tor.

back to having .com .org .ru .us

We don't need anything else.

Comment Re:At Least... (Score 1) 286

A lot of slave holders did not feel slavery was right. The sub-human part only came near the very end of slavery. (Sub-human = Need to be taking care of. Some did not believed that slaves could live without their owners). The "slaves need to be taking care of like pets" came to less the guilt that many had. Slave had got better health care then the poor White people. (part of it was also, "you own this thing, so you take care of it." Slaves cost a lot to buy). When slavery ended, many went back to the same place they always worked. They found that they did not get the same health care, had to work harder (why pay 5 people when you can pay 1 person who you can replace when they die from over working), and had to feed themselves. Many Ex-salve holders made more money from the end of slavery then from before. It was about this point that sub-human = pet, turned into sub-human = disposable trash.

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