Your understanding of the open source license requirements is fairly broken - there is NOTHING in the GPL (any version) which requires the distributor of the code to provide access to third party services where they require the use of that third party service.

You are thinking of the anti-tivoism stuff in the GPLv3, which does not cover this.

That's not a problem for the developer of the application, that's a problem for whomever is providing the hosted instance of their code. If a "normal non-technical user" is deploying the code, then they should equally be able to solve the problem of third party webservice keys etc where they are required.

Maxwell had lots of companies, several of which had irregularities.

It helps to not be arrogant in your attempts to "correct" people.

Learn this.

Its still going to be more expensive for them (the company) to start from scratch with the environment than it would be otherwise.

And you are assuming that all those Linux developers have the knowledge and ability to support the *entire* Linux platform, from the kernel on upward, when a particular device driver or six is dropped from mainstream due to lack of maintenance or whatever, because thats the same issue as what they are having with the XP EOL.

They originally chose XP because it had a much lower cost of entry than anything else, and I'm not saying that as a Linux hater - yes, you do get the source to do with as you may, but that means hiring developers who know how to do something with that rather than just hiring VB developers. Low start up costs versus less control over your long term environment. But that wasn't an immediate problem when the EOL date was a decade off.

So now, a decade on, they are reaping what they sowed.

It all smacks of very very poor planning on the case of the ATM vendors, and they have to find someone other than themselves to blame - after all, they've ignored the issue for 7 years, which is how long we have known about the EOL date for XP, so where has the forward planning been in the interim period?

So they eschew Microsoft's replacement because doing so supports their laying of blame on them, they have little other option than outright admitting their own failure.

Sorry, I left a parentheses open in my last post and its bugging the hell out of me. So heres the closing one. )

I apologise whole heartedly for all of the teeth-nashing this has caused.

I find it to be very production ready - I'm doing it on RaspPi for a particular reason, but more recently I've switched to NancyFX self hosted on Mono, which is really reliable, fast and development is frictionless.

Also, he may be referencing Robert Maxwell, who disappeared from his boat while sailing off the Canary Islands, but his body was actually recovered a while after and positively identified - but his disappearance at the time was widely believed to be a deliberate act to avoid being prosecuted for discrepancies in his companies pension funds.

The first half is strikingly close to what happened recently in the UK - John Darwin went missing while canoeing in the North Sea during 2002. His canoe was found, but his body was never recovered and he was declared dead in 2003.

In 2007 he returned to life, having lived in the intermediate years as John Jones, firstly in the UK (living in a bedsit next door to his old home, then living with his supposed widow wife, before they moved overseas, eventually ending up in Panama. The catalyst for his return was a change in Panamanian visa law, which required British police confirmation of his identity.

So he came back to the UK, claimed he had amnesia and didn't know what had happened after his disappearance, and his widow wife and children played their part in the fantastic return - but it soon all unravelled when it was discovered that his wife knew all along and had lived with him in Panama for several years.

They are both now serving jail sentences for insurance fraud.

Ive been running ASP.Net MVC stuff on a RaspPi under mono and Nginx now for several months with no issues...

No, not confusing at all - Crusade was indeed a direct carry on. Allies of the Shadows unleash a plague on humanity in a revenge attack, and the alliance sends a ship to find a cure. How is that not a direct carry on?

What you are talking about is something like Stargate Atlantis - definitely not a carry on from the original series, but set in the same story universe (not physical universe of course :) ). The two had essentially no story cross overs of any real mention, but Crusade was very heavily crossed with the original B5 story.

Crusade was really something like the later Stargate: SG1 seasons, with a largely new cast, new enemies to fight and a new story arc to pursue, but basically a continuation of the same old story.

And my answer to that is "Crusade", which is a direct carry on to the story of the original show.

Really? All the "made for TV movies" that were released after the end of the final season? The entire Crusade series? The Legend of the Rangers? The Lost Tales?

It certainly seemed like there was a struggle to actually end the story...

There has always been the concept of a "spent" conviction here in the UK, where you don't have to disclose it to prospective employers etc, and it differs for the type of sentence - this year new legislation comes into effect which lowers the time period for "spent" convictions.

Once your conviction is spent, you are the same as everyone else.