It appears RedHat has realised that, through systemd, it can readily provide preferential support for its own projects, and place roadblocks up for projects it does not control, thus extending its influence broadly and quickly. By using tenuous dependencies amongst its own projects it can speed adoption even faster.

And who is one of Red Hat's most lucrative customers?


The National Security Administration

Maybe it's time for FedGov to build their own Internet that is intentionally incompatible with the foundational building blocks of the Internet (except at well-controlled, secure interface conversion gateways).

"Can I build around 50 miles of Tehachapi mountains?"

I recall stories tagged with OhNoItsFlorian; well past time for a OhNoItsBennett tag.

Nope. I'll carry on with free Pandora and my own collection, thanks. I really don't see a $120 annual bill appealing to the same stressed economic group that is now 'cable-cutting'.

Plus buying music from YouTube just sounds like the equivalent to shopping at Dollar General: embarrassing.

In light of them strong-arming every manufacturer that dared to use Android with threats of supposed IP infringement (that has not and probably never will see the sterilizing judicial light of day), this 'change of heart'... isn't.

Satty first needs to don the hairshirt and make quite a few public apologies for past AND CURRENT actions against FOSS.

"Had his chest been a cannon, he'd have shot his Philae upon it." Or something.

Seriously. U.S. has worse speed AND higher prices than most of the Western world, including pretty much all of Europe.

This also succinctly describes Amercian health care and prescription drugs. I'm sensing a pro-corporate trend here.

I just hope it can read back your writing to you.

I've never understood the British use of the word 'mains' when talking about household wiring; it seems to imply there was / is 'secondary' or 'auxilliary' wiring.

The Government God forbids mere mortals from being allowed to escape their just punishments of soberly enduring the stupidity and drudgery of Western life - with the exemption of booze and prescription meds like Jesus would want, of course.

Every underwater generation scheme is toasted by the life problem. None of them are tolerant of all the sea life that will grow on and around the facility.

Simple: coat everything in paint with Transuranic waste additives!

Things being cheaper makes them more accessible to all.

With the exception of universal health care, housing, clean water, living wages...

Many of the poorest and most rural states in the country tend to favor Republican politicians.

Lord, don't I know it. Fitting that today is Halloween, as during All Hallows Eve when Obama was first running, all the Obama yard signs (and only the Obama yard signs) went missing from all the front lawns in my little burg located deep inside a deep Red State. "High school kids playing a prank", said the cops. Sure. Sure they were. But even if they were, they learned their blatant racial hatred from Mom and Dad.

It's part and parcel of the severe mental illness of poor GOP voters: "If I vote to let billionaires become trillionaires, I myself will magically become a millionaire solely because I'm White!"