Looking through the list, it is not stuff which is open sourced by Apple. It is open source which is used by Apple.

I know that Apple do contribute code back to these projects which is great, but I couldn't see anything on the list (I only read it quickly) which had been started by Apple. Webkit is probably the largest piece of open source work they have done and has been changed significantly from the khtml base so this deserves credit.

But even with this, pretty much every user facing application from Apple is closed source.

It is not that people don't have laptops, virtually everybody has a laptop (apart from a few desktop users like me). I don't know of a single person without a computer.

A computer is essential unless you want to visit the computer lab every other day to check for emails.

There just isn't a culture of having laptops here which perpetuates itself.

At my maths course in the UK there are two people who use laptops in lectures, one is a laptop which converts into a tablet so the guy takes note with a stylus. Then other guy types the notes up using Word 2007. Everybody else uses paper. The only exception is the computing course (introductory programming) where a lot of people had laptops and which were recommended.

No, I'm saying the English get to dictate the meaning of words because they made the language. I was trying to imply that it was called English because the English made it.

There are some fairly decent Javascript IDE's Komodo IDE/Edit comes to mind. Spouting ridiculous hyperbole about assembly really doesn't help your case at all.

£3000 per year. This gets paid by a student loan form the government (interest matching inflation in theory) for anyone in the UK. Cambridge subsidises its teaching heavily beyond normal government funding because the University (plus individual colleges) has large investments and gets a lot of donations from alumni.

Are you sure? Modern English developed well after our monarchy. It is the English language after all, you can't complain that the English chose to define the words in it.

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Plus naturally the 33% increase in software sales over 4 years. See the figures do add up.

You missed the fact that the $140 billion for ailing economies was calculated using a $3-4 bonus for the economy for every $1 spent on the software.

I do exactly the same. Loads of people who I know have pirated copies of Photoshop for example. Most of them don't need it, I only know one person who does more advanced editing in Photoshop than I do in GIMP. GIMP is highly capable and will do what most people need and more. I don't think anyone I know who has a pirated copy would have bought it (the person who does the advanced stuff has a legitimate copy).

You are misinterpreting the wikipedia article. If the method described was followed accurately then the open source software would be absorbed by lowering the average amount of software on a PC. This is assuming they take the average using a representative statistically significant sample of course. This strikes me as unlikely so you conclusion may be correct even with faulty reasoning.

"Google denies a report that it is sharing advertising revenues derived from mobile applications on Android smartphones with carrier and handset partners. The search engine maintains the only revenue sharing it engages in is from paying carriers a cut of its search-related advertising sales."

You haven't read your own quote. The quote clearly says that it is about sharing advertising revenues. This actually implies that they are receiving revenue from these sources and are keeping it for themselves rather than paying some of it to the people who make the phones.

If you create a shell script

#!/bin/bash
wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b remove,maximized_vert,maximized_horz
wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -e 0,[left],0,[width],[height]

Then (with wmctrl installed) and the correct width and height set you can easily just add a keyboard shortcut (I use Super-Left and Super-Right) to resize windows to half the screen size.

Why should we have a dock instead of a taskbar? The only advantage I can see is that you can launch an application from it which I solve by having two panels in gnome one with launchers on and the other with a taskbar.

The obvious disadvantage is that having multiple windows from the same program open is awkward with a dock. I need to click/hover on the icon which then pops up a sub menu which I then select the window from. With a task bar I see them both so I just click in one spot and get the window open.