is pornographic?

Bravo!!

If you don't like it -- change it yourself --
if you have the skills to do it.

This is something you can not do with closed source
and is the big difference btw the two.

we will all pay a steep price for our hypocrisy contempt and cowardice towards China human rights abuse, censorship, lies and manipulation

RM has proved many times to be intellectually dishonest and manipulator. this is just one more instance.

efficiency rate? / emissions?

that might infringe their patent

Surprised that Google is not in the list, as they have been big supporters and enablers of linux and the Chrome OS is going to be (quite) a new Linux distro.

I quit smoking cigarettes years ago. I smoke a small cigar after dinner and 2-3 snus tobacco during the day. Thats all the nicotine i need.

they should (i) check ms oem contracts and why is is nearly impossible to find consumer (or corporate) pcs without ms installed (ii) prohibit proprietary of corrupted standards for public services (including video, docs, databases, etc)

summary is wrong.and the assumption is the usual stereotype boy=bad girl= good

wrong credits
PC - IBM and Apple
Internet browser - Netscape
"Grandma who wants to set up a webcam so she can chat with her grandchildren? She doesn't want to have to sit and hack kernels for hours. She wants Plug-and-Play" - have you used a linux system lately? better plug and play than ws

"Linux lost because it's very rough around the edges and it's a scary thing going into a piece of technology on a large scale when you are not 100% guaranteed it will work"
i) Linux lost because the specs said MS only
ii) Since when MS (or any vendor) guarantee 100% it will work?

what they do with their own s...

Bravo!