Another vote for RISC OS. From a usability POV it still leaves most other GUIs standing.

Hmmm. I don't think it's actually as good as crap!

Very true... Also, not all pastes are equal, indeed some are little better than toothpaste. We don't know of course which paste Sony used. Does anyone believe they used the best they could find? {best to prove their point, that is}

.. that may get more intrusive over time. Something beginning 'W' perhaps. Ah yes, a wedge indeed.

What's a "server room"?

Why is it that I don't seem to have any of the problems others do with Linux? Across my home and business use I have 4 totally different desktops of different ages and capability along with two laptops, again quite different in age and power, yet I have no issues with any of them. They all run debian (or one of it's derivatives).

Why also, do people totally miss the point of FOSS and focus on price rather than freedom of choice? In fact, it is quite legally and acceptably possible to make money out of libre software. Redhat seemdo it very nicely. However, I personally am more interested in the ability of organise my desktop in such a way that maximises my ease of use, and productivity, without some idiot OS telling me that I can't use a mouse click that way. Most Windows users are quite astonished at the way I can stack up and organise active views on various projects.

.. does everyone have to massively over-complicate a simple job that was a solved problem in my school in the early 1960s? They used mechanical counters that were sent a nice slow switching drive pulse every second, and a reset pulse every 12 hours, all down one three core cable. Every room in the school (and it was a big one) was synchonised to a single reasonably accurate master clock, and that is exactly all you need in a hospital. You don't need atomic clock accuracy, just reliability. Also, you got used to the one second click and stopped noticing it, however you instantly noticed if it stopped.

Clearly that is precisely the problem. They are failing because they aren't wasting... um... spending anything like enough money.

IBM provides a small amount of funding to ibiblio. ibiblio has many other sources of funding. It is also host to a mind-bogglingly huge array of free archive material as well as projects and blogs. Groklaw is a tiny, almost invisible part of that. On several occasions PJ has described this situation in detail, and pointed out that it is likely that there is no alternative hosting that wouldn't have supposedly controversial funding.

Unlike FM, Groklaw has always made it clear when they are giving an opinion, and where they are stating facts they give copious references to support these facts - usually direct court transcripts.

Yes, there is a bias there. It is towards truth and freedom. I rather like that.

Not only is it definitely copyright infringement (but try doing anything unless you have huge wads of spare cash) but it doesn't matter what T&C the ISP tries to put on their users, it's not the users that own the copyright!

Not heard anything about Sawfish for years. I'd come to the conclusion it was more-or-less abandonware. Great to see it isn't. It's an exceptional WM

I'd say you're right on the button there. BTW what's that big black thing hovering above your house?

Well, you wouldn't have a problem with that angry bird if you hadn't tried to come on to her sister.

The 'old' Righthaven got nothing from the sale of their domain - it all went to their creditors.

That doesn't include all the other costs built into the subscription. I've been a member of several small organisations over the years. The annual subs for each average at around ukp30.