There other interesting tidbits revealed in this case. It looks like there are groups of people that actively use open source software to exploit ideas whithin them for their gains. Then companies like Rackspace that naively hurried to adopt the open source "free platforms" are now faced with unexpected "hidden fees" from patent parasites that crawl along.

Most VCs are losing money, that is the norm, there a very few hits, sucessfull IPOs or buyouts..

The OGL implementation for example.

You can register a name such as "free" as your top level gTLD and start doing just that, offering *yourservice*.free domains, you can act as the registrar and the policy maker overseeing your brand new domain pool. However the establishment of such a new top level gTLD requires the operation of a domain registry and demonstration of technical and financial capacity, it will be difficult for small players to easily register and manage gTLDs, but VCs alike can still create a useful utility in the domain system.

There many applications that run without an "OS", sometimes even made to fit inside the CPU's cache, big advantage is that no OS overhead is involved, lots of dedicated console setups or micro controller software uses such configuration for example.

Jedi is the only religion compatible with the Higgs field (the force) and the standard model of the quantum universe, it is in fact the true religion. /s

Still, without DRM and the feedback on sales figures it provides you have no way to check whether the publisher is not screwing you.

The interesting part is that the soprano outbid NASA, so her overprivileged ass will be rocketed into space instead of some NASA instrument or satellite.

The Trumpet Winsock software plus the early Nestcape Navigator made the early internet possible on Window >=3.0 and there were a lot of Internet even in those days.

This evangelized "IBM Model M" keyboard is something like "Gibson Les Paul Custom 1968" guitar for typists and developers.. huh?

Your anecdotal consumer grade experiences are spot on, perhaps we are witnessing another example of marketing win over engineering. Berkeley GEOS and IBM OS/2 vs MS Windows spring to mind also.

This is a very different doomsday scenario caused by an anomaly in the energy state of the background quantum field, such a rupture or lower energy state bubble would then expand at the speed of light eating the existing universe and transforming it to a new one, transitioning to a lower field state, bad news is that the 'new universe' would be very different. Some scientist believe that more powerful LHC could even trigger such an anomaly.

The synchrotron is a publicly funded project, they should churn out more info like this and more often to show this is useful.