I know user experience is subjective, and it sounds to me that because you are accustomed to using Powerpoint, and you were expecting Impress to be an exact replica, your experience was worse than if you would have gone into the situation with the expectation that it's a different program and you need to learn a different way of doing something.

Yes, same situation up here in Winnipeg. I haven't heard or seen any problems with snow covering our traffic signals. We first started using LED's as far back as 2004.

Nowadays it seems everyone has become a germaphobe. Hand sanitizers in every office, school, many homes. Then there are all the fungicides, pesticides, anti-virals, and antibiotics, that we are consuming whether intentionally or not.
And speaking of antibiotics it seems everything is tainted with them, one of the most common is Triclosan. Here is a list: http://drbenkim.com/articles/triclosan-products.htm You might be surprised at some of the products that it's in.

'When the constitution of India provides equality before law, this equality has to be all pervasive and cannot be allowed to be diluted because of money power or lobbying power.'
- our legal systems here in North America have long since been diluted, our systems almost always favour those with money and power, anyone who believes otherwise is clearly off in a fantasy world. The fact that those with money can often get out on bail, while the poor guy has to rot in jail, is a perfect example of how unjust our legal systems are.

"But on the strength of its money power it has the added advantage of choosing a court of its own liking which is so far away from the defendant that it becomes problematic and a harassment for the defendant to contest the suit itself."
- purposely choosing to file a lawsuit in a certain jurisdiction knowing full well that who you accused has no reasonable way of showing up at court to defend onself, should be in and of itself illegal.

I know I signed up a few years ago, ended up never using it, anyway I checked the website, and sure enough, I WAS ABLE TO download the Linux version, It's old (2007) but it was there to download.
I see Gizmo5 being completely absorbed and integrated into Google Voice - it basically says so in the Google Voice blog.

I have no idea how such misinformation gets to be front page news.

who needs a back door to sneak in, when all the windows are only secured with feeble latches?

Well said!

Innocent? I'm wouldn't bet on it. Considering Microsoft has come up with "special" pricing for them, leads me to believe that they may not be as innocent as you would like to believe they are.
Also apparently funds have cut from the program, yet then they have money to spend on MS licenses?
Who knows maybe it was just a ploy to get deep discounts from MS?

It seems to me that many equate free with worthless.
Home made pie made with home grown fruit isn't worth any less than a store bought, mass produced pie.

Yeah, yeah, I know some will laugh at the comparison - but the principle is still the same.

A programmer that gets paid isn't a guarantee that that persons code/programmes will be any better quality at their place of employment, than the code/programmes produced at home for free and contributes to open-source such as Linux.

Just because something is made illegal doesn't mean it is wrong. There is a big difference between laws and ethics. History is full of laws that made criminals for no ethically justifiable reason.
If somebody wants to make a copy for personal use, how is that wrong? How many times must you pay for the exact same thing, when the first one you bought is still usable (but artificially prevented from reusing or copying to another device)? Personally, I'll stick to paper books - at least I can read it anywhere at any time, and when I'm done with it, if I want to, I can resell it.
Pirating for profit is wrong, but DRM hurts everyone. Also DRM is more of an obstacle than effective tool against pirates, and pirates can still be dealt with under copyright law.

After reading many comments on here, I've got to wonder if some will complain just for the sake of complaining. Blah, blah, blah, KDE wasn't totally free, Blah, blah, blah, KDE didn't do this or that ..... who cares already that's the past, how about focusing on what KDE is nowadays. The most recent version is very usable, and I would rate it as one of the best desktops to use.

Why do the citizens of the UK put up with this shit from their government? How are they going to know what you're downloading without invading your privacy? Oh wait, that's right, the right to privacy doesn't exist in the UK.
It is time for every single person who values privacy to start encrypting everything thing they send or share.

Will Facebook continue to count these dead people as current users, perhaps for the purpose of selling advertising? Sure they can say the have 300 million users, but then they'll say, "oh and by the way, ??? million of them are dead."

Also, I have a friend (not a close friend) who died nearly 2 years ago, nobody has yet reported him dead, I would but I don't have any proof of his death (no obituary published). I guess he's immortal in the eyes of Facebook management. I think in a situation such as this Facebook should try to contact the person and if there is no response in a reasonable amount of time then they should deactivate the account.

I would not buy a dvd of a movie without seeing it first in a theatre, or renting it, and saying that, there are few movies that I would actually want to own.
Actually I'm quite content waiting for most movies to come on TV movie channels

Thank You. You pretty much expressed and explained how I feel about this whole copyright situation. The only difference is I truly believe those "copyright industrialists" do know exactly why they are bad, and greedy people know that they are greedy - but their own self interest is more important.