Not our problem.

Doesn't apply to defamation/slander.

"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no" Most newer IP PBX systems can be programmed to use more than one number, that is, someone calls your desk, you're not there, it tries your cell phone, you're not there, it sends you an IM, etc. I think the true answer is "it depends on the nature of your job".

I feel this if then statement is oversimplified. The answer is probably external factors making the competitive wage for the jobs remain flat in a recession economy. But that's not sensational enough for /. is it? Perhaps if we got Rob Enderle to declare something dead, that'll get a shitload of clicks.

I'm not sure I understand the purpose of this article.

What?

Sometimes, there is no *good* open source alternative. I use them whenever possible (dansguardian, squid, clamav, etc) but it's just not always the answer. Not a popular opinion on /, but a reality nonetheless.

If it has to activate, there's a limit to how many times you can activate certain software with a key, even a VLK.

It's strong-arming if you vendor lock a customer than steeply raise rates. blah blah free market blah blah still an adversarial dick move.

It's an adage. Thanks though!

Oh you cheeky monkey.

"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no"

Like someone else before me said, the install base is too fragmented to have any meaningful inroads made into the consumer desktop market. You have different installer types, package types, desktop window environments, cryptic command line commands, etc, etc, etc. Yes I realize these things represent choice, which can be overwhelming for "the average user". I tried a few different distros for home use and the best I found were Fedora and Ubuntu, but even they have their shortcomings. Ubuntu is probably the closest thing to a unified consumer distribution I have seen. I honestly base a consumer distro on how easy it is to set up printing. Long story short, got tired of fighting with everything or finding some obscure forum post on how to enable something for fix something and switched to a Mac.

Cute. If you had a profile you could click on it and see this on the top right: http://i.imgur.com/2fPxv.png I'll give the troll attempt a solid 2/10. Also check out my 400,000s user number. Good day sir, or madam.

I wish I had karma to spend on this.