He isn't. He's complaining about people's apparent false sense of entitlement. Avoiding GPL is perfectly acceptable. Avoiding GPL *and complaining that GPL has harmed you* displays a false sense of entitlement.

I believe his point was that BSD'ed code promotes standards by allowing anybody to easily incorporate the code. Suppose that the original TCP/IP stack was GPL'ed. Others could still have written their own TCP/IP stack, but would they have bothered to do that or would they just have invented their own proprietary standards instead of bothering with TCP/IP at all? BSD'ing the code makes TCP/IP the path of least resistance.

I don't necessarily agree with this point of view but I can see the reasoning.

Heck, "mission critical" is overrated. Some ATMs run Windows!

Your web browser speaks HTTP. However an operating system reading the contents of a mobile device involves treating it as a block device. There is no commonly-used high-level file access protocol over USB. Unless the device can emulate an FAT filesystem over a block device interface (is this even possible without huge amounts of resources?) the device's filesystem has to be formatted as FAT.

The alternative is to create your own file access protocol and force the user to install a custom application that speaks this protocol, e.g. how iTunes interfaces with the iPad/iPhone. This really, really sucks, you now have to install iTunes everywhere.

I agree that Chrome is more responsive that Firefox. (Note that I didn't say "faster"...) But to say that it uses less resources is bollocks. Chrome consumes vastly more memory than Firefox and I have less than 10 tabs open. Go ahead, browse for a day and measure it; the total memory usage of Chrome tops Firefox by quite a bit. The UI responsiveness is the only reason why I use Chrome over Firefox.

What are you talking about? Works fine on my Mac.

What if a woman gets raped by a man carrying HIV? What if you get in contact with an HIV-infected needle by accident?

Did you even read the article? It talks about things like broken hard drives.

Maybe a semi-automated attack in search of more zombie machines for sending spam.

I used to sell a software product for $11. Customers got lifetime free upgrades and lifetime free email support. Licensing terms were very relaxed and it was allowed to install the software on multiple computers and even to share it with family members. People still pirated it.

With "annoying windowing issues" do you mean that clicks on unfocused windows don't do anything, and you need to explicitly focus a window before clicks have effect? That's actually a setting in OS X's X server. You can change it in the Preferences dialog. I found out about it recently and Gimp is now sooo much more usable on OS X.

After all these years, all I've seen is complaints about the name but nobody steps up and actually forks it and changes the name.

A garbage collector can compact memory in order to fight memory fragmentation.

So you're switching to Chrome 13?

If those 20% of users are the dedicated ones who tell their friends 'why are you still using IE? You should be using Firefox, it's way better' then pissing them off means you're fscked.

The 1% Linux users are extremely hardcore about the command line and tell their friends to use Linux. Has optimizing the UI for those 1% helped Linux gain more market share?

Where did this 'clutter' bullshit come from anyway? [...] Major FOSS developers seem to have gone insane in the last year, abandoning the markets they have in the hope of gaining markets they don't. It's retarded.

I wonder how much of your opinion would hold when under scrutiny of a professional usability expert.