That has not been my experience, based on user-reported bugs for the Python IDE that I'm working on. 2.x is still more popular in production, but 3.x is growing steadily.

You apt-get install the app, and it'll install the requisite Python version automatically as a dependency. And all Linux distros that I've seen handle 2.x and 3.x installed side by side just fine, as well.

The open sourcing process is not complete yet, but the stated goal is to open source the complete server stack - i.e. everything that is needed to run an ASP.NET vNext application. It's kinda messy in that it's spread across several GitHub repos right now, but look at this and this.

GTA is so much more than a parody of "crime culture". It's a parody on culture in general. If you have ever listened to the entire track for WCTR or WKTT, you know what I mean. And remember the commercials?

Have a look at WA Department of Fish and Wildlife.

There are some WTFs still when you look beyond just the police agencies. For example, the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife has acquired 130 5.56 rifles. Why?

Yes, that sounds a lot like someone belonging to a fascist totalitarian society would say to the resident of a free world.

Doubly ironic that most Spartan soundbites come to us because they were recorded by their opponents, rather than from them directly. Then again, totalitarian societies never last long.

If the normal procedure for pull requests was not followed - i.e. if he was a guy who needed to sign off, and he was circumvented - then it was absolutely the right course of action for him to revert. Procedures exist for a reason, and you don't get to skip them because your pull request is to right some social wrongs or something.

For example, they will likely update the bundled V8 engine to use a more recent version, that is actually supported by Google, and doesn't have known codegen bugs.

(right now, even unstable node 0.12 has V8 that's so old that it's unsupported by upstream)

There are plenty of people who acknowledge open source as pragmatically useful in some/many/most cases, but not follow it as some kind of God-ordained religion for everyone.

Speaking of "Windows Azure" - it's not that anymore, the "Windows" bit is gone. It's now just "Microsoft Azure".

Which should also tell you something.

What you describe is the implementation details. The end result is that Microsoft is jumping onto the F/OSS bandwagon, which was long overdue. So yes, it's definitely a win for F/OSS - finally the last major OS and development tools maker is fully acknowledging that the model is not only valid, but preferred, at least for some types of applications.

That it is also a win for Microsoft is orthogonal to all that.

That is not quite right, either. .NET 1.x was a separate runtime; installing 2.0 does not install 1.1, you have to install it separately.

2.0 will not run 1.x applications, unless you override their target runtime in the manifest.

So given that there's specifically no OS lock-in here (runs everywhere), and it's impossible to lock into .NET itself once it's open source (anyone can just fork it and go their own way), how exactly do you expect EEE to work?

And yet there's one platform that is notably missing from the list of ones supported by Java: iOS. And that one is kinda a biggie lately.