How can a sales tax be progressive?

Easy. Mr Gates must pay ... 1 million for a toothbrush.

But outside of there 3 exceptions, it's basically only people complaining and whining, and not much effort to actually avoid systemd and propose another alternative.

Systemd *has* been bullied into distributions, systemd *is* a bully to other parts of the system.
What response to bullies do you propose?

"Well, that employee violated our own established policy. It is her fault. Don't you think of touching my bonus!"

Bonus, rewards etc. are not within the reach and will be protected fiercely by stakeholders.
Isolate and jail.

• IE6 notoriously slowed down browsing with large cache (>500Mb).
• SP1 performance/stability issues with drivers, requiring more memory
• SP3 requiring more memory still

This is without crapware, anti virus using only Microsoft drivers.

The issues around anonymizing your data and removing PII are taken very seriously. It's damn frustrating, because I often look over the data for user 234209342349 and think, "I wish I could email this guy and ask why the hell he is doing that".

Yess-s-s, of course you would ... *MU-HU-HA-HA-HA*