You should come by my place when I need to wash the dishes, I have even been known to drink beer from a bowl ;-)

Have you got SharePoint to work with Apache's HTTPD Server? You probably just use IIS and Windows Server 200X instead of using Linux and Apache HTTPD. Just go to Dice and look for SharePoint jobs, there are tons of them and there's no way to migrate away from it easily.

To be fair, OpenOffice.org isn't GPL, yet that's the text editor / presentation software I use.
Are you going to stop that as well?
You'd be surprised at how many corporations are going with Sharepoint, it's the silent Apache HTTPD killer and yes, it uses .NET. That said, I've never heard of anyone using it with Mono.
.NET and C# are pretty amazing technologies, especially with LINQ and Lambda expresssions, couple that with IronPython and you have a cool system.

Sure someone else will... let's just say that Google is currently the world's information portal and that most people are lazy. Many people today say I researched this topic when they simply googled said topic.

My argument is more "let's not let Microsoft use our language because we have some patents*." Then people will either be forced to use an English, German, etc version instead of the French version.

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* Yes I do understand that there aren't software patents in the EU.

The part of my posting that you ignored was "If Google stays away from all the copyrighted material in French, that means the world would be..."
To paraprhase, if it becomes too difficult to deal with French copyright, Google may simply avoid the quagmire and avoid all books with French copyrights all together.

Oddly enough I chose Victor Hugo because he is a) French and b) his works are in the public domain. However if the cost of dealing with French copyright is too high, Google simply won't deal with it.

France just lost another major battle for the war of the cultures. If Google stays away from all of the copyrighted material in French, that means the world would be more apt to find Victor Hugo in English than in French. I'm grateful that for the most part, the internet is English territory (/. is a great example).

It's just sad to see the French surrender yet another battle.

They do need it released under MIT, BSD or Apache if they want to sell it for a billion dollars again.

I loved MySQL because it was a great example of how to make money with open source.

... and I beat he spent at least 8 hours a day at Slashdot as well!!!

Except for those people who are still using IE 6 or Netscape 4.
If only people would leave IE 6 once and for all.

This guy is a witty IT guy, perhaps 'Twit would be a preferable way to address him and show his true distinction.

Plus IIS is free as in beer (if you've paid for winders)

I've never argued that a person is subject to the laws of another state (e.g., I'm selling wine in California and Massachusetts wants to tax that or my personal income), unless they do business in that state.

Citizens of one member states are not subject to the sales laws of the other state
I totally agree with this, yet vendors are subject to the laws of the states where they're selling.
Some examples: the state where I reside determines if you're able to sell me wine. Also distribution of pornography is regulated by community standards not your community standards.

Why should Amazon's owner charge sales tax on a business transaction that results in a good delivered good in Massachusetts? Not that I'm a fan of this, yet it seems far from being illogical.
However Lithuania would be within its rights to bar me from doing any business transactions there, if I don't follow their laws. If one of their laws was simply to pay them sales tax on every transaction there, is that absurd?

I believe if Walmart wanted to, they could either offer postal deliver (within 2 days) or even home delivery. Their distribution model is second to none, however,they're offering the lower price. This lower price can entice you pick it up at their store, while there you may remember some other things that you wanted to buy.

Thanks for the comment, yet in the article I linked said nothing about the having subsidiaries in each state.
From TFA:

in 2008 New York enacted an innovative law that effectively deems a retailer to have a physical presence within the state when it has independent “affiliate” websites in the state promoting sales on its behalf.

Therefore Amazon in selling to CA (I'm sure they need the money and would pass a similar bill to New York's) would have to collect Sale Tax. What was considered onerous in 1992 may not seem so onerous now.