Is there even any difference between republicans and democrats anymore? They both are merely vehicles though which companies rule US, communicating their desires via lobbies backed with contributions. They're like old USSR communist party, only instead of one "party of power" they made two.

that the biggest part of their entertainment value is in cracking the DRM.

Other people would be even less interested in working on it for free than you so my point stands.

Well, that doesn't make any sense whatsoever then. It is obvious that any current contributors would be most interested in working on it future, more than any other potential contributor. In fact, OP said that he's going to continue his work in this very thread thus answering my question. His issue was loss of company support due to him no longer working there.

Who? Potential contributors they're looking for you mean? Your reply is in wrong place then.

You gotta be kidding. Prison for life just for network intrusion? Most murders would warrant less than that. It's just another over the top law, like anti-blasphemy in Islam countries. No place for them in this century. Punishment must be according to the crime, and there's no way you could do something deserving a life sentence using computer hacking alone.

Even if it's illegal, counterfeiting isn't a term applicable here. It's violation of USB spec, nothing more. Counterfeiting involves deceit by definition, but device vendors definitely knew they're getting not an FTDI device but a replacement that can serve same function.

It's the other way around. Driver doesn't support those non-FTDI devices. Those non-FTDI devices support the driver.

And how this applies to this particular situation? I just don't see. Emulating another device's interface is done all the time for sake of interoperability.

Was there even counterfeiting? If they just made own chips with the same interface then it's not counterfeiting. At most violation of USB spec, maybe not even that. TFA doesn't provide much details about this.

All of them? Not a single free day to maintain a project they could maintain while they had jobs? Unlikely.

Wouldn't a retired person have a lot of time on their hands to contribute to the project? Or it's customary in your country for all people at retirement age to perform ritual suicide?

Just like Brainfuck is a pretty good programming language..

There's just no way it could be true. Default gentoo profile uses openrc(thus systemd profile would get less testing), and it takes some effort to convert default openrc install into systemd one. As someone who is using systemd with gentoo I can attest to that. The only way to implode systemd now would be to make another competing better init system(sysvinit with some bash clusterfuck bolted on doesn't qualify as init system anymore).

The author definitely doesn't understand science. It's not merely experimentation, but also ability to derive inner workings of the world without direct observation. Experimentation is part of it but you also need to figure out what is behind the results you get and choose correct experiments in the first place. Without this you can't discover things such as quarks and general relativity. They were theoretically predicted and only then found with appropriate experiments.