This can only be the precursor to the wikileaks post where they blow the lid off the GNU world by releasing a torrent of source code! Run for the hills!

I think that every time I buy organic vegetables!

I imagine old people will enjoy 3 weeks of battery standby time and not being pestered by SMS spam.

Is the nanobot 'grey goo' earth going to be usurped by the bacteria concrete earth?

Honestly I think there's more interest in games for the Amiga than any incarnation on any platform of Crazy Taxi.

Nice try though!

The idea of building a custom browser for utilizing websites doesn't really fit into the web.

The future of web clients is the ability to use APIs from custom javascript.. Don't build custom UIs around these services as a 'browser'.

If the service you provide doesn't offer an API? .. well. Good luck with that. Someday someone will and people will fondly recall your service as that thing people used to use.

Kind of a FUD response. The alternative of not being able to fork is that we would be at the mercy of whoever's software we're running. In this case Oracle, and for lack of an alternative office suite, Microsoft.

While it's an inconvenient reality that anyone can do whatever they want with a fork, cream does rise to the top. If you feel strongly about it, donate some money to the organization or your time.

Simply sitting on the sidelines complaining about what you'd do differently or better or really -- what you think everyone else does wrong.. Thats a luxury you have because of open source.

Without open source you'd simply be complaining about Microsoft not doing what you want.

Yikes.

Take any person you consider 'brilliant' and do a bit of digging on what makes them brilliant. You'll probably find they have a wide breadth of knowledge outside their focus area. The other thing you'll find is that by absorbing new ideas that you get new perspective on your old ideas by being able to make connections between seemingly disparate concepts or see patterns in your old ideas by seeing them through a new lense.

So, while you see this as 'money wasted on crap', I think it's a good idea. Take people out of their element, stimulate their minds with new ideas. There's no harm that can come from this, only benefit.

The argument that money is wasted on art or music education always strikes me as myopic.

You whippersnappers wouldn't be able to get on it in the first place!

* PROBLEM SOLVED *

You're welcome America.

Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don't hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent - I don't care which one - but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator.

The reason nobody should buy a social networking website is that the barrier for entry is a college kid who knows PHP -- and thats only if you want to be 'as good' as the competition.

You can buy a social networking site, but when the next big thing comes along and all the users you bought jump ship don't say I didn't warn you.

Rupert Murdoch spent $580m on myspace, how good is that working out for him?

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I don't see why. There's no financial benefit to charging people to develop for the desktop. It reduces the number of developers and the availability of third-party software.

They had an opportunity to _keep_ things full closed source when moving from OS.9 to OSX but instead chose to go with an open source kernel and build the system foundation on open source.. So, the genie was in the bottle and they intentionally let it out.

They didn't even have to let the genie out, mach kernel is BSD licensed. They could have kept the whole thing closed source.

Either way, hate on Apple all you want. Doesn't bother me.

Hmm. Apple provides XCode and examples for free, installs perl, python, and a variety of other programming languages for free by default..

I think you might be mistaken about what Steve Jobs is trying to control. The handset market? Sure.The desktop market? .. Not as much as you'd like to lead us to believe.