I've deliberately omitted .NET -- I have no desire to do the Microsoft languages

To each his own, but may I ask what drove that decision? Love or hate Microsoft, but C# is pretty much the pinnacle of C-style programming languages.

It's a boring sentence trapped in a boring, verbose memo

He's being intentionally vague - not naming products or companies.

If I had to guess, he's probably referring to the fact of how quickly both Linux and OSX matured on the Intel platform while Microsoft moved so slowly it might as well have been standing still.

In the mid-nineties Microsoft wanted to deliver big on the Internet - do you think they did?

Lose your manufacturing economy and you'll lose your knowledge economy, or did you think you could have the cake and eat it too?

Google, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, etc. would all disagree with you. I mean, dude, you're posting on slashdot.

Literally the only chance we have of getting to another solar system is to discover an entirely new branch of physics that somehow makes interstellar travel feasible.

At only 20LY away, it is entirely feasible that we could *ask* them. That is if there is a "them" on Gliese 581g.

Anyone parroting the "endangers lives of out troops" is doing nothing but repeating drivel meant to discredit wikileaks at this point.

Disclosing tactics, procedures, and strategy to the enemy makes us safer how? Also if the data is that real and that valuable, why not hold onto it until after the war is over?