Yeah, but he was a competitor. It was a bald-faced competitor thing to say at the time, and a little dumb, but I don't fault him for it. Now he has a huge opportunity to buy back his old company, give it a little "Dell Magic", and sell the whole useless lot off for a huge profit. If that's what he does, he's simply being smart and I would do the exact same thing in his shoes.

Let them keep using xp. Doesn't stop you from doing what YOU want, after your "people" are taken care of. Give the people what they want, if they want to keep using crap, that's up to them. I never advocate upsetting the status quo, unless I can benefit some how. In this particular case, I, and You, would gain no discernable benefit. Are we agreed?

Not a viable business strategy for Microsoft.

Well... Linux works for me, I run 7 in a vm for those rare times I need it, but as a posix/Foss developer Linux is indispensable. It may not work for you, perhaps, but it is a viable alternative, a better one in my opinion, d00D.

I read the headline and came away with "Lou Reed Just Died". I'm gonna miss that guy.

The Laser Disc system was first named "DiscoVision". Wow...

Johnny (as a Death Star tech) is seen behind a control bay plugging the laser cannon back into its power source giggling "Just kidding!"

meh. thrilling.

Its "obtuse", but your point is taken. But let's be honest, many, if not every, circle of technical wizards in charge of a popular project gets infected with elitism to some degree. I will say however, and without really understanding the exact technical reasons canonical seems to be taking the technical "high road" and laughing some of their userbase writhes in pain on the ground behind them.

Say what you want, I didn't need any help hating Unity.

They should at least provide a demo, which they'll be doing soon, I hope.

Been on /. a long time, lunacy is in the eye of the beholder. If the king of lunatics as big as the US Gov, who among the peons can say any particular person is a lunatic with any credibility?

I've been a life-long cinservative. Now, the way I see it, the US Government is the lunatic. If your livelyhood depends on that entiity, who are you to question it, right? Of course everyone else is a lunatic.

To a mad tyrant.

A false sense of WHAT? I cherry picked WHAT??? I'm sitting here in CALIFOIRNIA just sort of shooting off repsonses to idiots, I'm not writing a peer-reviewed article, just an opinion, AS AN AMERICAN, understanding however that the US GOV is OFF ITS ROCKER as a democratic institution, and I'm a european shill now? So much for land of the free... OUR government is out of control. Scrape the shit out of your eyes, brother. This govnernment set out a plate of delicacies called the "Internet", implicitlly said "I will govern this gift with a benevolant hand", and then whosale helped itself to whatever secrets it wanted. That's morally wrong, I don't care what you say. This government is under the illusion that it knows what's right. The last 10 years show it really isn't. To believe otherwise is to be blind, or complicate.

i think several countries who think they have the tehcnological balls are leaning in that direction. I really don't have a problem with the logic, if some one is going to claim to be a non-partisan, benevolant, shepherd of the world's main digital infrastructure (implied by the fact that the US has resisted efforts to make ICANN a part of the UN, which was an intelligent decision in my opinion) they need to NOT be evil. The US has broken this implied promise, and has completely ruined the good will it has enjoyed with other western countries, the few in the middle east, and everywhere else. Its like believing your mother has been stashing away your newspaper money and then finding out from your brother she spent it on crack. Its a complete collapse of the goodwill built up since WWII. The US government has gone from being a 9/11 victim deserving of sympathy to a paranoid 800 lb gorilla just itching for some one to look at it cross-eyed, and intelligent, civilized people are looking at with a new eye, and rightly so.

I see a lot of American idiots who say "If you're doing nothing wrong, what does it matter?" right here, even on this supposedly anarchist-leaning forum. Well, ask yourself: Why does Angela Merkel have a problem with the US Gov spying on her? What would your response be? "Oh, well, she's a peer, she's the head of another Government..." why should that be any different? The US Government is supposed to be working FOR YOU, they are YOUR EMPLOYEE. This and the subprime fiasco should be a huge red flag. That more Americans aren't apalled at what this government has been up to lately is astounding to me. Keep 'em hungry and thay'll be happy with the few crumbs they do get, I guess.