Are you sure?
It's hard for me to imagine an awesome CS person who struggles at math. CS is mostly math, or pretty close. Computability, regular expressions, automata, formal proofs, all of those are needed, in my book, to be awesome at CS, and I think you should be at least decent at math to grasp those.

No updating A will cause B to break. Turn off all Windows updates and freeze time march 2013. We will just hire more mcses to clean infections as they come as this is too critical to break etc.

One company a coworker interviewed hasn't ran an update in 5 years as it breaks some add on for exchange. They still run XP too???!

The more pain you make dependencies the greater to resistance to change. Look at IE 6 as an example?

There is a way to expand the model to the internet.

Say you pay a youtube subscription, and you get ad-free youtube, and for the same price, or for an additional, you get ad-free adsense.
That means you won't ever see an adsense ad again. The sites will still have the adsense code, and google will just micro-pay, based on your usage of their site, from your subscription money.

Doesn't look like a bulletproof strategy to me, but something like that might end up happening.

Additionally, those who don't use adsense would be at a disadvantage, because youtube subscribers won't be able to make ads go away.

Of course, the privacy implications of all this are huge, because you would be essentially logged in everywhere, and that's another service that google would be able to provide.

The general theory is the early Jupiter or Saturn entered the sun. Reason being we have a lot of copper and lithium that should not be there. Another large body slammed it into the Sun.

So it's not stealing. It's something else.

And you might want to get your analogy checked, I don't thing it holds. Maybe if it was potato soup + recipe or something like that. In any case, no need for analogies. It's easier to get it without them.

They are not stealing anything from anyone. The users didn't have any source to begin with, for example. They are not entitled to the source. The problem lies in the other end. Ubiquiti is licensing some code, and not complying with the license, by not providing source. This means they are not covered by the license.

This is plain, simple, copyright infringement. Not stealing, something else. And when you do it for profit, most people agree it's a bad thing. At least in the current context.

Let's see sleep finally worked, NT swapamatic o (n) algorithm replaced, indexer which caused disk to swap for hours until baked removed and replaced with instant search, networking smb fixed and almost 5 faster without drops, wddm graphics with aero multitasks where before the hour glass circle would wait with multimedia was fixed, and many others. Vista certainly wasn't ready nor baked

I was chatting with a network contractor who came from a network solutions company. Just under half about 40% still cling to XP.

My inbox is flooded with jobs looking for XP to 7 migration experts. Most companies today look at IT as a cost and not an asset as it adds no value to the bottom line

Dude my inbox is flooded with jobs for XP to Windows 7 migrations TODAY! They just started and in their eyes 7 is a brand new OS so why waste more money?

The fact that the fear of change starting with XP and still to this day many businesses which are smaller still using it with plans to change scare them.

Annual new releases though will drive them harder to Windows 7 more than any other time in computer history. It means businesses which take years to upgrade due to dozens if not hundreds of apps and ancient IE intranet sites will need staff that just upgrades and changes for the sake of changes year round!

Cost accountants and CIOs will not like annual upgrades

Let's say you own a business with 60 users in 2 locations? Does it make sense to blow 100,000 in an IT guy after taxes, Obama care, and other expenses, plus an additional 100,000 on servers and 50,000 on software?

Or go to office 365 and pay $900 a month and it just works?

I am happy to pay for software.

In economics both the worker and customer benefits. If you need something done and you have people waiting then there is no time to wait fixing or developing a system.

The free market provides solutions such as a more reliable virtualize and office suite over free alternatives. Namely MS office and vmware workstation over Libre office and virtualbox. Windows just works.

My comment just made a few red in the face but it's true. I have money. I need things to work without workarounds. I need a resume formatted properly on someone elses comouter. I need Windows 10 and 6 different vms to just work without crashing. Clouds are great too.

If these were all sooo horrible and anti user then the free market would have bankrupted them. You are denying a programmer financial incentive to serve his customers and me and my boss to buy software which pays for itself.

... since I am just a nice guy and this is slashdot I found the news story here

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01...

Might have been Coke Cola.

It was mentioned in my accounting book when I was in school a half decade ago. SEC busted them. Try Googling that as it was one of the 2 soda makers at a wharehouse in Plano.

They got em.

Private sector too whenever the sole and only focus is on metrics. Like how Pepsi loaded all their inventory on a truck moved it 1 foot then did an inventory count each quarter is a classic example.

People will find a way a number is met

Winforms emulate com underneath. I remember a long time ago there was dcom/com on Linux. Do no not know if it is still active or how well it integrates with Gnome or XFCE?

Problem is we excpect it to be like Java and just work across platforms. C# maybe started out as J++ as a set of apis for java, but it is not java anymore. It is not python either that has gui components and frameworks designed to be cross platforms. It is not PHP either which that has quirks which make running it on Linux far best to this day.

The compiler is free but in 2015 it is about including code. That code is win32 specific. .NET would be great with gnome calls or even MacOSX specific ones. But it is not an all around 100% solution for java like cross platform compatibility. MS is discontinuing WPF anyway from what I read to focus on universal apps apis in Windows 10.

I believe Beagle was one such c# program for gnome that was successful back in the day but was all 100% gnome with no emulating win32 stuff in it.