The reason people who churn out flash games don't switch to html5 is that they don't know how and don't want to learn. If there was a wealth of second world labor trained on one standardized authoring tool for html5 it would explode. But you still wouldn't see all the old flash games get ported. Those will soon be lost to pixel rot.

Getting out in front of the predictable gag order and bringing attention to this was ballsy and smart. Of course now DHS will probably start gag-ordering the pre- subpoena request... But thanks techdirt staff for shining the light.

Naw, MS is obviously really nice guys. That's why it's news when they remove useful, desirable features from a product you already paid for.

It has always struck me that I can't seem to find a critique of systemd that lacks namecalling, cursing or at least one suggestion that Poettering do something that sounds anatomically unfeasable. It's as if the critics are largely middle-schoolers who don't actually have any skin in the game.

People who pay for your time by the hour.

Yeah, why can't they be professional, courteous and agreeable at all times like other prominent linux developers?

Starcraft confirms it.

Thanks for keeping the debate high- minded, AC.

You do realize that the ending of the story was that there really was a wolf, and the flock got eaten, right?

Weirdly, you need 3D acelleration for things besides gaming. Data visualization. Google earth and maps. Designing for 3D printing. CUDA. Shall I go on? Ideological purity has little place in the discussion about desktop operating systems, or you can go use gnu/Hurd and run out o.k. all the hardware it works on ( hint: none)

Your point is well taken, but we're talking about replacing the Linux kernel with BSD. So it's not a backwards step.

Open system considerations aside, most of us just want to use our computers to do things. Anybody gaming in Linux right now is already dealing with this, but with extra manual steps involved, and the world hasn't ended.

The same way the windows folks do it.

Browsing the web is good enough for the vast majority of users. Many apps that used to be windows or Mac only work on the browser now. If you can read a thumb drive, download pictures and video off a phone, and use the webcam with Facebook you're up to about 99%.

Ah yes the convenience of debian.