It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying

You have it backwards: It is now official: Netcraft is dying; BSD confirms it.

Are the ponies powered by hot grits?

...Where Seldon is heard,
A discouraging word.

I mean, they are beating a dead horse at this point. We can imagine that the horse is pink.

would prefer if we could just bring back OMG Ponies and call it a day.

Thank you; asked and answered.

Only if you happen to be carrying the Loc-Nar with you.

I had the same idea, with one thing added: if any OS wins, it won't come from Microsoft.

I know, it's beneath you to read the fine article, but there's a link in the first sentence of the article which - if you follow it and choose to view an online transcript (which is the subject of the article) you can log in or create a user ID.

You should be taxed based on the value of the services you receive. Basing it on consumption is a foolish (and economy killing) way to allocate tax liability.

Physics hasn't got a lot of room for opions I'm afraid, the universe is somewhat oblivious to the whims of political opinion.

Just remember: that statement cuts both ways.

With UNIX, there is god and the peasant.

If you set sudo up correctly (i.e., nobody has unrestricted use of sudo and the admins are expected to use su instead.) you have God(s), the nobility and the peasants. The nobility, of course, consists of those users who are allowed limited access to sudo to manage their own boxes, but their privileges don't include doing the really dangerous stuff and the peasants neither have nor need even that limited access to elevated privileges.

How much of a discount will they have to offer to make it a better deal than free?

Yes, or at least it does the best it can. However, you can't then take the data that you used to create the theory and claim that it proves the theory.

Yeah, Apple *really* led with that. Firefox has had a "block third party cookies" setting since day one.