There's no point to steal fiberglass either as it's very hard to recycle.

Do you have a source for that?

Except the Unabomber. But I don't think this weakens your argument.

I would argue that OSS software falls under the "advancement of science" clause.

There's also Rawbots, a robot building game where you can design your own robot, program it, and battle against other robots in arenas that you can design yourself. Multiplayer isn't done yet, but they're working on it. The robot building/programming and level editing features already work and are quite fun.

http://www.rawbots.net/

I'd like to watch him try that with LISP. Though it might work perfectly with COBOL.

Don't worry, it won't be available in 3rd world countries.

Bows are the weapon of cowards. Real men fight with axes.

Yeah, that's good too. First time I've heard about it.

"There was a 23% drop in temperature." is a worthless comment as well unless you mean it in Kelvin.

Reflection is pretty lispy, and C++ couldn't do it without some hacks (that were later standardized to RTTI).

I sense a fellow Prolog programmer here.

I very much like my debuggers, but I can't imagine why a few added print statements would make the program compile for 10 minutes, unless your whole codebase is in one file. (Or you have fetish for static linking.)

Except with crowdsourcing the backers aren't investors, but donators. They don't get any equity in the company. It would have been in fact illegal to do so. This might change in the near future.

http://www.salon.com/2012/12/28/equity_crowdfunding_waits_on_the_sec/

I guess it helped that old Russian vacuum cleaners looked like a rocket.
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4128/193134567.2/0_9d4ed_46b8054b_L.jpg

And here is a washing machine:
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4133/193134567.2/0_9d4d1_cf3056df_L.jpg