"Ripping off" ??? If the BSD creators felt this way and would not approve such use, they would have used a different license... Apple does what it's allowed to do with the software. They don't want to reinvent the wheel, unlike some Redmond-based company, and are prepared to go for the best sollutions for their customers. They use/support webkit, they distribute Apache and countless other opensource applications with their OS. Want it or not - that's what they are allowed to do.

Most people here have to shut up about licenses - since 99% have never even written any code. It's the developer that decides what someone else would be able to do with his code, and that's nobody else's decision.

I really wonder how they addressed the mouse acceleration issue in OSX, it's impossible to disable, and is sucky for FPS games. There is a way to 'reduce' the mouse acceleration, but it's not 100% perfect - and relies on a deprecated API that could be removed in future OSX versions...

Hmm - in what time-frame are you stuck? You already know how to make fire?

I mean - wake up. Your view of the world is so damn limited it irritates me, and I see this a lot on /. Your life is simply not the center of the universe. Yes - you don't use Youtube, have something against javascript, cookies and flash (can't disagree on the last-one actually)... without knowing what the hell you're actually talking about. HTML5 and Javascript are married, the videotag without javascript is pretty useless. Cookies are usefull things that can be used to track you, but a decent browser makes sure this is limited. Privacy issues? Simply don't browse the web then. You're not in 1995 anymore.

For the vast majority of the users, only one thing matters: it works. It doesn't even have to work well or be the best. Just look at IE6's marketshare to prove that point. 99,9% of all firefox users don't give a damn about those things and go with the defaults. If firefox doesn't work, and the Internet Explorer also installed on their system does, they'll drop FF in an eye-blink...

I predict that the average IQ will go up somewhere in 2012...

Can only say one thing to this: http://www.dataliberation.org/

Apple never signed a contract saying they agreed not to do that. Palm in this case did and violated this contract AND a standard by doing so.

Strange thing is, that while he was at the job, - and if the license was GPL - it would have allowed him to copy and distribute this modified code, since he was effectively using it there...

Good luck if you're planning a crusade against the trends in modern society. All it's about these days is looks and image... :)

The major problem here is that "the author" of that library might be hundreds of authors which all have to give you their "go". Also, the original library might be a fork of another GPL'd library, which brings you in even messier waters...

VMWare a memory hog? What? Running a blank winxp with only helper drivers installed in vmware vs virtualbox, both configured with 512mb ram: vmware: 80mb (all processes including DHCP etc counted), VirtualBox: 230mb

VirtualBox still has a long way to go... Totally unreliable in production or even development environments. It corrupts images on regular bases, crashes without any indication why, and on windows, the drivers are a total mess, bluescreening the entire os on regular bases (yes - also the latest versions). Not to mention the horror a version upgrade is, chances are that you have to uninstall everything again, reboot a few times, manually remove some files and re-install the latest version. WIth some luck, it then works. I gave up on it, and just installed VMWare server - which can be downloaded free of charge to use in the development environment. Is rocksolid and runs without a glitch...

And while it's true that Photoshop has no competition in most area's, Gimp does have a few area's where it can seriously compete with it, after all - most users only use 20% of Photoshop... Too bad Gimp decided to be a Photoshop competitor on "bad user-interface"-level too...

Tbh, I prefer to have both. A GUI for quick & easy configuration, and if needed some manual config-file tweaking for more flexibility, but both can be usefull, and both can be terribly designed.

Sam Raimi doesn't exactly have a better record than Michael Bay tbh... I think they're both B- class directors... Both spiderman movies might have been a huge success - but the movies basically sucked big time. I never understood why so many people think they're good... Same goes for transformers...

The only good 'comic book' movies I've seen were Sin City and X-Men 1&2. Ironman also surprised me. The others? Mediocre at most. I've seen them all in the theaters, but a lot of them don't deserve to spend any money on.

Anyway - both Sam Raimi's movies and WoW don't interest me - so I don't really care he would make a WoW movie :)