...when it became focused on the STO and New Cap City and forgot about the evolution of the Cylons and the backstory hinted at in BSG itself.

I'll be commenting on this on my podcast this weekend and invite people to respond with their opinions as well.

I, for one, would like to throw my support towards any effort that results in Ben Affleck being shot at an asteroid.

...the remote service is using free, open source code that you can then patch and run on your own server. Then when there's a bug, you can fix it and run your own patched copy *and* submit the patch back to the service provider to use.

SaaS in and of itself is not inherently non-free as he seems to be say (or explicitly said).

I started back to university at 36 and, at 43, I just finished my two year degree and am working on my four year in computer science. On top of that, I plan on at least earning my masters before I throw in the towel. I don't think it's ever too late, or a person too old, to continue their education.

Not sure what you mean with #5, but there's no negative marketing WRT CentOS by Red Hat. CentOS is friends with Red Hat and are symbiotic with them: they provide to the market segment that can't or won't pay for support, and when people ask CentOS for support they're directed to Red Hat.

NOTE: I work for Red Hat and we discuss CentOS from time to time internally. It's a generally well accepted relationship we share with the folks at CentOS.

Or even via offlineimap. Why do we need yet another offline email solution when there are tools that exist already? Hell, Thunderbird can replicate your email locally.

And as a Red Hat employee, I can say that Alan's leaving isn't a signal that anything's amiss at Red Hat. Quite the contrary, actually. Alan's not going to leave behind Linux: he's going to continue that with someone else signing his pay check. And by working for Intel he's going to get to work on future hardware sooner.

For my job I deal with some upcoming hardware that requires someone like Alan getting to it before I even touch it, since a working kernel would make my job easier.