It's an operating system.

A fragment of a fragment further segmented and compartmentalized by carriers and hardware makers.

The community does the job of fragmenting the Linux community far better than Microsoft or Apple could ever hope to. That's the downfall.

Relevance and marketshare in which segments? Mobile and tablet? Absolutely. Business desktop and server. Not a chance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-25/vivendi-loses-956-million-verdict-to-liberty-media.html

Why let a tyrant dictate the terms of your community over the objections of community members?

I really liked this part.

So tolerate abusive, boorish assholes? Why? Just to fit in? Fuck that.

The only two choices are not intolerable asshole and fake nice saccharine pantywaist. He must be surrounded by people calloused to the abuse and too afraid to call it out as what it is. So what you're sitting at home in your bathrobe? Congratulations on being a misanthrope shut in weirdo.

You would pick that up in your normal troubleshooting routine though, swapping the card/cabling, but I see your point.

"Hold on $insert C level executive here, I'm going to break more shit, trust me, it's for our own good" You're fired.

I don't see the practical application of something like this in a physical networked environment. Thinks like this may sound nice for permastudents' theses, but may or may not have a practical use without one hell of a architectural and best practices shift rather than just replacing a failed piece of equipment or rectifying a software issue and closing the ticket?

Windows Steadystate used to do a decent job of this on XP.

What crime? Mr. Anaya is neither a law enforcement officer nor an IRS agent.