Does that really matter? I'd think that if she believes in GNU's 4 freedoms, it's good enough. She doesn't need to be a good accountant or manager; she just needs to be free (as in libre). If she's that, she'll fit right in with the FSF and its front organizations like the SFC.

And people who find it too rich can go for Razor-qt, which like KDE is Qt based, and should run the same apps.

No it doesn't, except to anti-QPL fanatics. KDE was there, and it was GPLv2, but Qt wasn't - at least not completely. Once Qt did become GPL/LGPL (don't remember which), the reason for GNOME to exist faded. Once GNOME changed its mission from that of a GNU Network Object Model Environment to just a simple UI that dummies could use, it's rationale for existing became as valid as East Germany's in 1989. GNOME 3 was just a culmination of the dumbing down evolution that this UI underwent. GNOME could have been great had it borrowed liberally from GNUSTEP, instead of trying to redefine or reinvent an Object Oriented environment. Instead, they pissed away that great opportunity that they had.

Only reason for GNOME now is religion, so they might as well go GPLv3 (or even AGPL) and make it the default UI for HURD.

The above would only work if the spread were random. I would expect it to cluster with a greater density of pellets in the middle. Does anyone know how random the spread is?

Absolutely. So many companies would have tried to say that protection was "good enough" or "unlikely to be exploitable in real situations".

Most will have signed up, thought it crap, and never returned. Most people don't delete dead accounts and counting them as "users" is as false as counting someone as driving a Toyota if they once took a test drive.

The point is you are an ignoramus of enormous proportions. The rise in wealth in USA was due to the so called 'robber barons', which created entire new industries and allowed the economy to flourish around them. The 'trust busting' was the beginning of the DESTRUCTION of the economy, as it started destroying the principles of private property rights. Government destroys the economy, it doesn't create it, the economy has to be created first for it to be destroyed by the government, and the private sector in the USA built a mighty economy that it took the growing USA government this long to destroy it.

Internet is critical infrastructure, which is precisely why it must NOT be in the hands of any government (and no other infrastructure should either, because it is illegal, immoral but also really stupid - if you want something to work, you don't give it to government).

Couldn't they just waive all of Microsoft's taxes, and call it even? On a more serious note, they should go FreeBSD or Debian and make their tax compliance software FOSS

Tech may have developed, but has it been adapted? The world is still dragging its feet largely on IPv6. SCP, the successor to TCP, doesn't look like replacing it anytime soon. Nor will FTP or other legacy internet standards be replaced anytime soon. IETF could do better by focusing on the implementation of existing standards, rather than the definition of newer ones.

I thought the GP was being sarcastic

Escalators don't blow up. They fall open and grind you up like a slow motion wood chipper. Feet first.

In case any /. phobics don't have enough to obsess on.

Last that I used was Civ II, and after that, once FreeCiv installed & worked, it replaced Civ II for me.

...and since discontinued

This is about the people still using those purple Irix boxes.