"Proactive and preventative", eh. Let's say Google wants a larger percentage of the population
to be apt at programming. Would be nice to have a pill that would proactively and preventatively
aborts unneeded foetuses -- those with relatively limited perspective -- in Google's programmatic,
programmed, proactive, preventative world.
/p?

Sez Larabel: "security or code quality/openness ideals". As if, aside from these three, any other signifcant ideals remain in programming.

We know what an Anonymous Coward is.
But what is frof.
What is Ureacrats.

There's a whole field of opportunity for this guy: restoration of footage from Nagasaki and or Hiroshima years and years since.
Destruction, deformities, and a host of other de-ities.

For the bizarre books that the former keep.
Nothing to do with geeks even if (and increasingly 'precisely because') it involves Google.

Am I the only one in welcoming this outcome, because loathing strong-arm monopolies, err... monopolies period...?

Good point.
I'm actually, seriously, convincedly, for it, and you can quote me on it. 'Force Majeure' -- in the interest of The People of the country, to save the country, its intrinsic values and such as ar laid out in their fundamental societal documents, so to speak; I bet the Constitution of many a so-called Western Democratic State would provide for something like that.

So campaign against the criminal gang that has been in control for too long, and bring them in front of a judge themselves.

Computer.
(And I keep repeating myself).

You sig enthralls me.
To en tomaten tomaten tomaten to vrat
To en tom aten tomaten tom at en to vrat.
(To and Tom ate tomatoes, Tom ate and To devoured).
(Google Translate: 'To and ate tomatoes tom tom ate and ate to' which is just pathetic).

You miss the point.
Anyway, my dear, betrayed American friends. You are being fucked over by 'authorities' (can you btw. vote those out or is hanging them from lamp posts the only
way to a clean slate?), you're being shafted by your own countrymen more than you'll ever even be slightly bothered by lessay the Chinese.

I suppose you're much like me.
Both of us are a "Being Digital".

The US has 'socialized' markets; most everything innovative is state subsidized (i.e. socialized: paid with your tax money) and state-protected (aerospace, oil, pharma, bio). Everything that's truly innovative, as in the "High Praise the US of A Land of Opportunity" (sure...), --achieved by personal struggle and personal enterprise--, that's who that famous Free Market is for.

Tesla should just wait and be embraced by GM, so they, GM, could either obtain heavy subsidies for it, or kill it off, whichever suits them best. Or, Tesla might move elsewhere, where the market operates similarly, but they don't lie about it calling it 'Free'.