Egh, a skinny bitch....

*** Why would you not be allowed to use it? ***

Because to make effective use of the code on github, you have to make a copy of it. You duplicate what is on github and store it on a different medium. This, for the purpose of copyright, constitutes a copy and that is strictly forbidden without permission.

So no license, no duplication, as you don't have the permission to make the duplicate. That is copyright in most countries and under the Berne Convention. So we all live in a draconian regime when it comes to sharing intellectual works.

Perhaps the author could have chosen e-Coin instead.

** ducks **

People in general are in each others way and we all are equally worthless. It's fun to wallow in delusions of superiority every once in a while, but it doesn't take away the fact that we are all bald monkeys with a fear of the dark and a dread for loneliness.

I can only imagine what hell it will create if such flawed beings as humans gain the ability to prolong their inferiority indefinitely.

Only if you don't know about the default in copyright and that it doesn't have implicits. It's quite simple. No additional permissions? No one can do jack shit with it except the author.

*** Yes, and by god, future historians will care about YOUR spreadsheets and YOUR websites! ***

Actually they do. Historians are still trying to (painstakingly) find out how people in the Neolithic lived. So yes, having access to YOUR spreadsheets and YOUR websites will be very valuable for historians in say 3000 years.

*** Egotistical jackass. No one gives a shit about 99.999999% of humanity after they're gone. ***

Projection? That YOU don't give a shit about humanity, doesn't mean nobody else does.

How many digitally illiterate users? None. But how is that different from Windows, OS X, *DOS, *BSD, Haiku, etc?

For these people, there is only the option of paying someone else a nice sum of money and get a freshly installed machine back.

It doesn't matter what "borks" the machine, be it a technical problem or general user confusion over a slightly changed icon or location. These people are already up the creek when they turn the machine on.

It's not gonna work. No matter how much resources you pour into ReactOS, it's always going to be a copy of Windows and chasing taillights. Why go for the clone if you can get the original? It didn't work for OS2, Wine and Mono.

What would be the benefit of the customer to run a clone? Would you lower the cost of your machines in line with the cost for the installed ReactOS or would you use the bulk of the savings to up your margin?

That explains a lot. Don't go out of sight of the telescreen now....

How long have you been in Room 101?

In other words, only bland people are acceptable...

I'm not a brony, but I have "unhealthy" interests in computers, Linux, and I probably enjoy animated movies from Disney/Pixar and DreamWorks too much.

MLP doesn't float my boat, but I see no harm in having people enjoying the show and identifying with the (I assume) positive message in that show.

Witches to the stake, gays to hell and bronies are creepy. Yeah, that sums up the sorry state of our society.

Wiccans have it right: An it harm none, do what ye will.

Hell no!

1. Bitcoin is an unrecognized currency, built on wooly, geek idealism that could get legislated away with the stroke of a pen.

2. Bitcoin has no intrinsic value, but to create these digital puffs of smoke, one has to destroy very real, very costly, finite resources.

3. The proposed method is sleezy. There is no mutual benefit. While the App author gets "his" Bitcoins for the cost of writing and distributing an App, his customers pay through the nose in utility bills and wear and tear on their equipment. This App better have the same impact as Lotus 123 had in the 80's, otherwise this reeks of simple exploitation.

4. Bitcoins are finite and increasingly difficult to mine per the design of the scheme. So as time progresses, fewer and fewer Bitcoins will be uncovered and the resource use to get them will only grow and grow. Is it ethical to agree to use a highly inefficient method to create Bitcoins, while increasing carbon emmissions and burdoning this planet, just so you can use an App "for free" and put a little chump change in the pocket of the developer?

You really think 18 year olds and up don't do stuff with their hands that you wouldn't want to touch?

Gnome WAS the standard for Linux desktops.

FTFY.

Doesn't matter. A fundamental religionist will just (to paraphrase Adam Savage) "reject your reality and substitute his own".