I think all of the people he fired & the projects he gutted point to Elop making it worse.

This guy is a cut & dry corporate psychopath. Make no bones about it. Juniper, Adobe, he's been fucking with companies his entire career.

http://boingboing.net/2011/02/14/nokias-radical-ceo-h.html

Wrong. What Apple had in 2007 was EASY & SLICK. Which no one, especially not BlackBerry, had.

Funnily enough, when you combine polish & ease of use, people love your product.

I'm definitely an Android kind of guy, but if you can't appreciate what Apple pulled off with the iPhone, then you're a fucking moron.

I disagree. I am someone that could easily become a contributor, but that's not my original intention. My original intention is to use some software. If I have to compile it then I'll most likely move on.

If your intention is provide some useful code to other developers then it's fine. If it's because you think your software is good for users then have binaries available.

Imagine if a malicious attacker hijacked Microsoft's update server! Or Apple's update server! Imagine if a malicious attacker got control of the moon base!

Baseless fear mongering.

This is BLATANT paid for advertising, especially with the ridiculous title. All in ones finally grow up?

Thing is, do they really think there are Slashdot readers that give a flying fuck about this underwhelming PC.

Might help if you didn't have to be a gazillionaire to run.

So.. many.. logical fallacies...

Please show evidence.

Consume more electricity? It's going to be as slow as molasses.

I think fixing the government & service providers is probably easier & better.

Almost every company has T&Cs that offer them quick & easy ways to fire you as a customer. You're frothing at the mouth over something near to meaningless.

If you've got evidence of Google kicking off customers for running their own private mail server or OpenArena server. Please present it.

By presenting this as a net neutrality issue you're exposing yourself as a deluded "but, but, it's the principle of the thing!" idealist. Maybe you should come back to the real world.

Personally, I'm glad that service providers have clauses to make sure that people aren't running high traffic servers on the internet server that I share with them. If they need that kind of access they should be putting their servers in a datacentre like the rest of us. Not degrading home internet to save a few bucks.

You are completely wrong. Every single ISP in Australia does not allow servers on residential connections. Go read their T&Cs. That's what they have "business grade" ADSL for.

Now, whether they'll actually use that to kick you off their network is unlikely, but they CAN. And if you piss them off they probably will (having worked at several ISPs in the past I've seen it happen a couples times). Thing is, with limited upstream why would you even bother when a VPS can be found for cheaper than a residential connection.

By the way, you'll find that most of Australian ISPs actually use static IPs these days. TPG certainly does (my ISP).

Just because you've not "come across it" and haven't had it used against you doesn't mean that our ISPs don't have the ability to use it as a weapon against you if they want to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregardless

LOSE. THE WORD IS LOSE.

Actually there's nothing wrong with an open source "monoculture" - maybe if everyone used their own fork of webkit web development would be simpler without any of the players being able to stop innovating without falling behind.