I don't LOOK at my operating system so much as I USE my operating system. Does anyone really care about how sexy your O.S is? I just want to get the task at hand done and Ubuntu works great for me. Now if this helps them some how gain market share then bonus for me, it will likely lead to more improvements. Though I did chuckle at orange and purple being professional, maybe they took a bid tip from these guys: http://www.unisys.com/unisys/

A helpful scale.

60F = 15.6C
65F = 18.3C -- Approx winter temp of many US offices
70F = 21C
75F = 23.9C -- Approx summer temp of many US offices
80F = 26.7C
85F = 29.4C
90F = 32.2C

Both approximate temps are based on my personal experience at companies I've worked for. Some companies keep winter temps as low as 60, some allow summer temps to go up to 80, and some keep a constant single temperature year-round.

If there's a single temperature, it tends to be right around 70F.

Some trivial disc check that prevents casual copying but won't give you a support headache would be closer to the sweet spot I think.

Mainframes cost a lot more than 100k, usually a few million.

It makes me sound pompous because I am! :)

I fail to see why this is a "deeply symbolic moment in the history of operating systems" and not merely a moderately interesting moment in the corporate history of the respective companies (or, more specifically, in Red Hat's corporate history). Red Hat may represent Linux, but it's not Linux, and market capitalization, being a function of share price, is a less interesting metric then any measurement of the actual use of the operating systems these companies produce. Anyone who remembers the Red Hat IPO will know that share price is more closely tied to hype than to particularly signficant tecnical advances.

Oh, a SMEPED. Why didn't you just say so in the first place? Damn marketing boys with their fancy-sounding "Sectera". How the heck are we supposed to know what a "Sectera" is? That don't even stand for anything!

From my perspective, it is sufficiently advanced technology to be regarded as magic. Of course, I haven't watched TFA.

The industry minister's response is like saying in the controversy concerning battles at the arena, the Industry Minister said "we will continue to leave the matter between the Christians on the one hand and the lions on the other".