I know of no mighty company named "Quince"... maybe it's because I'm foreign?

Layout need not be changed and automated testing should bring that down to within a day. Says a guy who specializes in such endeavors.

Getting the copy approved, maybe. However, if you take more than a couple of minutes to make and test a change like this on the website of a massive engineering company you are doing it wrong.

It's really quite boring, actually. My employer requires software to get its business done. They use a vast array of proprietary and open source software and throw teams of business and software folk at it. The open source stuff gets contributions through this system (as does the proprietary) and everyone may benefit from it (unlike the proprietary). As in my initial (obviously poorly thought out and rushed) post, somebody wants the work to get done, they're willing to pay for that work, they take the benefits and (where possible) contribute the results to everyone else without expecting compensation. As with any business, there are lots of times when this isn't possible, but one can see that 'free' is of great benefit without big impacts to "making the world go 'round".

I often pay for apps and software in general (especially the 'free' stuff), usually because I believe that those products are valuable. The people who run those projects are mixed between those who expect compensation and those who are probably going to keep at it anyway. I personally don't understand why people would bother 'pirating' mobile apps, as there are so many that each do the same thing, if someone's trying to stitch you up by over-charging or micro-payment trickery, you'd just move on to the next one, surely? If people are going to the trouble of 'pirating' on the platform under discussion, I can't imaging them doing so for any reason other than directly annoying the author or otherwise being treacherous. Or perhaps just because they can? You are never going to get money from these consumers of your product, so why bother crying about it?

Plenty of folk are enjoying the spoils of their efforts on the platform (either monetarily or they're just having fun doing it), so it appears that this situation is one of a poor value proposition so there will be less genuine customers, because genuine customers won't wait for compensation to become reasonable and have moved on.

Who says it hasn't been updated? Who says the source code won't be made available? Who says anyone would actually want it? Do you also presume I expect money for it at any point? You seem to think my desire for everyone to get software for free means I expect to get things for free. I don't. I pay for plenty of stuff and contribute to other open source projects. I just see a bunch of people putting their stuff out there and complaining when everybody doesn't buy it as if the consumers were at fault.

Software Development. I think everyone should get it for free, because I know that if I want something I will build it myself.

So, you're entitled to money just because you developed something? No. It should all be free for everyone and you will get paid by those people who wanted it originally. Why did Life of Brian get made? Because George Harrison "wanted to see it". No other reason. Someone wanted it done and paid for it. Everyone else benefited from this desire, and they were able to sell some copies here and there, but it was not through a sense of entitlement to someone else's money that paid for the work to be done.

It's not the check point that ires me, it's all the selfish gits who wait until they're at the front of the queue before getting their stuff organised. Be prepared, damnit!

I was only thinking on Dvorak-like remapping of the keyboard to improve Swype speeds and reduce incorrect word suggestions (i, o and u are next to each other, for example). Funny how the world works...

Better power management. KMS. More timely releases. Stop whinging that there are problems with Linux/Xorg/whatever preventing you from doing something and work with those up-streams to fix it. Stop making excuses, start releasing code. Extract the proprietry stuff to (a) smaller blob(s) and expose the trivial interconnects and such at the very least. Never say it can't be done: everything's possible. Etc.

Because they're pricks, or because the coding effort involved would be far less? Just because they're criminals does not mean they have no delivery pressure. In fact, they might be subject to losing body parts rather than their bonuses.

Australia Post love shipping stuff everywhere. Our governments know we can't afford to let such core infrastructure die, regardless of the whim and desire of powerful, rich tyrants like and the rest of the retail industry incumbents. You wanted a free market, and the free market wants your stale business model to die quietly. And don't start crying about jobs, there'll be new industries creating new types of jobs in the wake of the people you constantly "down-size" to prop up your bottom line or improve the new manager's performance statistics.

• Person A sees person B's real name and address-identifiable post that they find disagreeable.
• Person A bullies person B in meatspace.
• Person A and B have no other contact with each other whatsoever and person A has never posted on site-in-question.

How does this alleviate bullying, again?

I assume that the 'deanonymized' data would not be shown for most people, but it must be for the site owner (apparently), so even if it's not hacked and exposed, the site owner is now a target for social engineering or direct manipulation or even bullying

But it's always bad when someone gets hurt.

Then we'll see if piracy was negatively or positively affecting their bottom lines after all.