The central problem with the current system is that it forces the people actually making things to defend themselves from entrenched interests. We need to redirect that fight so patent holders settle it amongst themselves rather than the wider public.

Set a patent tax at the point of final sale, and have patent holders lodge their claims against products as they come to market. Patent holders themselves will then have the burden of fighting off frivolous patents without troubling the organization actually producing things. The general public will have a direct view into the drag the patent system has on the economy, and will have to be persuaded to accept it. Non-commercial activity won't be impacted, because any percent of zero is still zero.

This wouldn't provide extra or faster broadband. It would be a tax on urbanites to subsidize rural broadband.

No, I would not want to see that. Let Farmer Joe pay his fair share.

Welcome to every watch list, ever.

I can hack any hotel room door.

With an axe.

Which is why we've all moved on to either other DMs, or forks like MATE or Cinnamon.

The thing is, I could do all of these things in Gnome 2, and do them better.

A stable, mainline environment like Gnome isn't the place for experimentation. They should have let others do that and import things that worked slowly, as they were proven. If that means that certain developers left Gnome for those more experimental projects, that's just fine.

Clients often have domain specific knowledge, and that can be very useful to a developer, but they almost always can't articulate what they want and/or need very well. You will need to help them with that, but that doesn't mean dictating to them. It means interviewing them, designing, and then getting their sign off.

And there's absolutely no reason they couldn't just release it as a patch.

If they want to make a full expansion, no one would complain.

The world would be in a lot better place if you couldn't burn it until you'd removed an equal or greater quantity of CO2 from the atmosphere.

They'll have to be somewhere they'll be seen, and so people will take them for their material value.

Perhaps they'd have to find some way for peers to share data with each other.

That would be a hack of the vending machine, not the currency.

If you don't check to see that the transfer has been confirmed, sure, but that's no different than putting a bill on the counter and then snatching it away. It's not a hack, and you can't do it to someone that doesn't allow you to.

No, sunshine, I was implying that you're developmentally delayed. The fact that it went over your head rather proves the point.

Keep thinking, you'll get it eventually.