"Stealing" ideas? Anybody who bothered to pay attention knew exactly where the ideas behind "obamacare" came from, and that they had been implemented in Mass.

I think -you- need to get a grip, and a clue.

I think among other things Obama proposed this set of reforms because he actually sought compromise with serious Republicans on free-market heath care reform. But there are no serious Republicans, as your post proves. If any of you had any balls at all, or gave a damn about the issues at stake, you would have -claimed- credit for obamacare, and passed it by approbation. Instead, I bet you now say it's flat unconstitutional. What a crock.

OpenAFS is not dead. IIRC, any Samba AFS integration probably is. This doesn't sound like a job for AFS, however.

Fair assessment. Moorcock and Farmer uniquely understood early pulp science fiction and made amazing contributions in their own right.

Thanks for this. Vance is among the writers in -any- genre whose work I value most after 30-odd years of reading. I periodically return to the Demon Princes and the Cadwall novels. I cannot recommend his work highly enough.

Strongly agree. This should be a big help.

I know of folks working currently on secure BGP. I would imagine that's part of the solution.

Sadly, yes, there is every reason to expect it.

That's wisely put.

As I look at the landscape, I'm actually inclined to think that opensolaris is usefully distinct enough from *BSDs, with interesting and rich tools and infrastructure to attract developers from (esp.) the *BSD kernel development communities, if it becomes clear that a clearer cut opportunity to do this exists.

Also, it looks to me as if the internal Solaris devs actually liked having an open process, and valued being open source, and that while a lot of the reasons for keeping the development and design communication internal were competitive, they were also just intended to avoid taxing the productivity of a very productive team. I'm surprised Sun's solaris devs wouldn't have tried to make more (perhaps piecewise) efforts to engage external developers in areas where those interests wouldn't conflict, and, perhaps they still might.

Project caiman the installer? I don't follow.

For what it's worth, Deerfield High School (which also served Highland Park, among other places) made computing available in a form that encouraged creativity--one of the best things about it was the lack of any relation to classroom activity.