While I agree with your view about abolishing software patents, I disagree about your view that "these companies recruit developers to fix their bugs for free".

First, unless the project is widely used, the bugs are rarely fixed in open source projects, except when someone is paid to do that.

Secondly, from my experience, I know that working on an open source project increases your chances to find a job, since you both demonstrate that you know how to code, and that you can improve a collective project.

But I agree that it's a way to increase your R&D team without spending any money.

And "pipeau" (pronounced as "pipo") means "lie" in french.

It's because it adds more value to your profile, which is the source of Google's revenue.

Google would like to create its own ecosystem where you use only Google's web applications, an Internet à la Google, where they track every little action that you do.

Also, since you "subscribe" to all of their services, they can claim that their services are used by millions of people.

Agreed.

Agile manifesto is about organizing work.
Reactive manifesto is about designing the architecture.

With agile, architecture is not the priority since the point of view is from the project manager's side.

By the way, the blog is blocked by NoScript. Does an article needs Javascript to be displayed ? WTF ?

You make it sounds like it's a problem.
Personally, I'm a meditator, and I *know* that everything is fake and I accept this as a fact, so I concentrate on my perception of the "reality".

I totally agree.
In fact, MS will probably propose a VR headset next year, and will use Minecraft to sell it.
Of course, Minecraft will not be available anywhere except MS's VR.
I expect that Minecraft clones on other VR companies will be sued.

I'm surprised nobody gets it, but I bet that Microsoft is preparing its own virtual reality headset.

What will make people adopt VR is games, and the simplest game (think about a 3D Tetris) is Minecraft.

So my second bet is that they'll use Minecraft to sell their VR.

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Blivet: yes
GParted: no

Since it's most probably a russian missile, this proves that they have a self-destruct mode that can be activated before they could hit their target.

This implies that the plane shot down by a russian missile in Ukraine was destroyed on purpose, since the missile could have exploded before hitting its target.

And what if these were the last two specimens ?

Citation needed.

Searching for "gmo harming bees" gives:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/d...
It is said that Terminator seeds provokes something similar to cancer to bees.

Ubuntu hsl gave me nothing.
You meant that:
http://www.ubuntu.com/certific...
?

For $113, you can get a Seagate 2 TB Solid State Hybrid Drive:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/...

It contains 8GB of SSD and the remaining is normal storage.
8GB should be enough for the boot of your OS.

The problem is that kids want to fulfill hidden orders.
Let's suppose that you reward them for doing a given task, while you tell them that you'll love them even if they fail.
Given their point of view, they might believe that finishing a task must be rewarded (you encourage extrinsic motivation), or that the task is not important as long as you don't hate them (you provide a false sense of security that everything will be fine as long as you are here, what happens when you won't be there ?).

But the most important problem is from yourself.
Perhaps unconsciously, you believe that you didn't succeed as much as you deserved to.
So you believe that your children should "succeed" where you "failed", and thus you are trying to bend their personality.
It's easy, because their personality is quite malleable when they are very young.
When they'll start getting older, they'll realize that you didn't respect their personality because you wanted what you consider the "best" for them.
Perhaps it was true in the past, but now, it's not true anymore. Will you be able to change your plans ?

Finally, what is "success" or "failure" anyway ?

And this is why we have so much people working too hard and filled with stress, because they hope to "succeed".

The idea is to replace "I can do it because I'm smart" with "I can do it if I put more effort".
Frankly, both of these are beliefs, and dangerous ones at that !
What happens when you realize that you cannot do it, no matter the amount of effort ?

Why not simply encourage curiosity and open-mindedness, instead on focusing on results ?
Is the result so much more important than the way to do things ?