Are nuclear reactors mounted on an angle in the US? Is this a deliberate strategy to prevent China from attacking the power stations in the next world war?

Some distributions used to also distribute ABI compatibility, back when commercial software targeted Sco/Unixware/Xenix etc and ignored Linux. See here for example. These days, I expect it is the other way around - anyone left still shipping traditional Unix on x86 (or even other architectures) needs to provide a Linux ABI if they want to ensure that proprietary software will run on their platform.

Linux has been able to run executables from BSDs, SCO Unix and a few other x386 Unixes since quite early on. You also need all the dependencies from the target system, and constructing such a system would require a license for the Unix variant in question, but the binary compatibility is there in Linux. The question is whether it contains any SCO copyrighted code. The answer is a definitive no - what code is common appears to have come from BSD, or is trivial headers that could easily be common by chance, and more importantly, a court has already delivered the judgement that Novell, not SCO, owns the Unix copyrights.

There are no employees left. The legal cases were sold off to one of the execs who wanted to keep going and a bunch of lawyers as part of the bankruptcy. The rest of the company shut down.

They can sell what they like. The junkie down the road isn't going to start buying ivory just because you made smack legal. If there isn't a market for what they are selling, there isn't going to be any profit in it.

They don't have a case. But since they destroyed all their documents that show that, they are not aware of this themselves.

They kept all the documents related to how IBM had put the same header files to some POSIX APIs in Linux as what SCO saw in Unix, right down to the function prototypes being in the same alphabetical order, but sneakily they had changed all the comments to hide their copying. The documents they destroyed were the ones related to the fact that Novel, not SCO owned the copyrights in question. There was no point to keeping those documents, as SCO have already lost that case and exhausted all avenues of appeal.

Actually starting the car is far less likely in newer cars, because whilst the number of key combinations are small, the number of key transponders is not.

Yes, but we're talking about a Ford Escort here. Even if you have the right key, its a toss up whether it will start.

... got it running on my computer ...

Wait, so he actually installed software to do this? Getting the WiFi password for a network that is already set up on your computer is easy, and doesn't require any apps. It's not the same as cracking WPA2 though.

I think that was the GP's point. Why would Nintendo feel any obligation to save Apple?

It's aimed more at Indians than Chinese, but there is a useful YouTube channel to help with conversing in Australian English.

To use a USB DVB-T dongle, you need a USB port. Preferably not the one that your power cord is plugged into.

An issue tracker with email interface can save a lot of time. Not having to log in to receive notification of new issues and being able to quickly comment and close issues by simply replying to an email does save a lot of time. But how do you search existing/previous issues, or check what is outstanding with an email only tracking system? I guess you could send commands and it emails you back, but this isn't exactly efficient compared to a web interface.

If the process is undefined to start with, it is better to bring in the tool first and build a process around this. In my experience, when introduction of new tools fails, it is usually because people get fed up fighting a tool that almost but not quite fits their process. The key to success is to make sure the benefits of using the tool are clear to the users and there are no additional headaches associated with its use.

He did say nearly. With SVN or CVS, you have to copy the files from the server. With a DVCS you can copy files from any client that has cloned the repository. The process is not much different, a single directory copy will suffice for all cases.