Easy enough. Don't use that hot mess.

It's a difference of nomenclature, and I don't really need a lesson on managing systems, as that's been my field for quite some time. System level accounts are just that, built in. You can, however, have application accounts, and they are still users.

Running production software out of /home/bob is bad. Running it out of /opt/software/versionX/bin/foo with a link back to /opt/software/bin is good. You can make /opt/software a home directory.

Plus one for root creating the files/configs so the user has the ability to execute, but not modify beyond perhaps some sudo rights. Unfortunately, politics often screws that up, and an exception is filed, accepted, and never read.

Users are not people. Users are users. Not to mention, it is easy to change ownership of directories and give them to a new user. That's the beauty of UNIX.

Now, that being said, when is user apache22 going to leave the company?

On an enterprise software level... bring what you need in a local, self contained directory structure. There is absolutely no reason your reliance on foobar v1.20a-final means that Software X cannot have 1.21c-upgraded.

Link to your own directory first in your search path.

Where's my check?

You magically assumed that "your guy" meant he had a "his guy" or rather who "his guy" was. Logic, bitches.

False dichotomy is false. Stop playing this like it is my team vs their team. There is one team there. You don't get a say, you don't get to play.

They would be copyrighted, not copywritten. The issue is RIGHTS not writing.

Because people have played mario cart, and I don't want to be hit by a red shell because I got to the charging mat first.

EA does a lot of shitty things, but this isn't one of them. EA may lose .02% of their revenue, because I doubt these fundies really buy their games.

Yet "Please give us the codes" appears on how many pages for assistance?

Why do you think all warp capable vessels in Star Fleet have deflector arrays? Gosh, kids today not paying attention in interstellar physics...

Grant them, yes, but not set terms to force someone to do what you describe.

And in what ragged and damaged interpretation of the Constitution would that be? Which power granted to the government does it fall under? You do realize the Constitution is a listing of the rights of the government and not the rights granted by it, don't you?

Mitt, stop posting to slashdot.

I can imagine Oracle screwed this up. If you have ever heard the asinine things that they require you to do, but remain willfully undocumented because they make no sense, it would not appear surprising.