Yes, but if you're using apple, you don't like freedom in the first place, you just like what Jobs likes.

Oh, so you mean that these ads allow Microsft to sell Zunes cheaper? A new slogan is in order for such igenuity!
it's not an ad, it's a feature!

Sure Microsoft, that IS a good idea! Ad-supported native software, straight from the mothership. Nothing gives a better impression than a cheapskate company trying to squeeze an extra buck off trivial software! Next time, require 3 subscriptions in spam lists for your notepad equivalent-du-jour, that'll bring in some extra cash!

Phoronix has published benchmarks of an ubuntu system with kernel 2.6.31-rc5

give it a few years and ppl will start hating google, too

drain their blood to make black pudding and THEN put them in the canon, silly!

With the Nokia N900, the Palm Pre and an army of android phones waiting around the corner, maybe dear apple understands they're not so special any more! They can't afford being so hoity-toity with three (android, maemo, webos) fully functional multitasking OS's breathing down their necks

since when is ad-supported "free"?

Maybe the machines are erasing the landlines from the matrix to stop humans from going back and forth in the matrix all wily-nily

Maybe he is doing that annoying thing when the person who talks simulates the use of quotes in oral speech with the typical gesture of the arms.

There, fixed that for ya!

sorry for double posting, I need to edit: ...times consisting of just *one person*

Sadly, education has yet to follow this trend. Computer Science and Computer Engineering classes have yet to implement significant group collaboration. And while the hack tenet of "something that has been done once shouldn't be done again" was a conceived by some bright students, educators still give identical tedious projects that have the students complete in isolated groups, many times of consisting by just. There has even been an instance of a student being threatened to fail a class because he posted the source code of his project. How can we expect future developers to collaborate when their education forces a way to work that is very alien to the open culture and resembles that of a proprietary company
Why hasn't the scientific community produced open textbooks, free to re-print, photocopy and distribute (a la Creative Commons license)
Why is it hard for pioneering ideas like that of the state of California trying to open their school textbooks to be implemented?

Yes, but does it run linux?