Do you have any proof whatsoever that the security researchers in question made such demands?

No?

Then lay off the ad hominums and red herrings.

Most F/OSS Android apps usually include a link to github or the like in their descriptions...or at least the ones I use.

Try again.

And if you are one of the many poor slobs whose health insurance is "go to the ER and hope they write off the check because I am in poverty and have no hope of paying it back"?

Recall that several congress critters cited exactly that scenario when they were debating against single payer health reform ("We already have single-payer health care, just go to your local Emergency Room!")

Shush, Honey Boo Boo is on...

Actually there is such a thing as a standard Linux layout: the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

That said, Ubuntu is not alone in ignoring it though... /me glares at Fedora

Or you really like the idea of "one app for one purpose" or simply an possess anathema to clutter.

Fedora -- stable?! BWAHAHAHA

Fedora has never billed itself as stable, quite the opposite in fact, they are notable for introducing bleeding edge features that might bork your box. Install Fedora to production - let alone mission critical - systems at your peril.

Or for the RPM diehards there is always OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, rolling release with fairly fresh packages (last I looked my kernel was at 3.11 or so)

Is it still compiling?

Not directly but then you need to look at all the related expenses that flow from the DEA's activities. To wit:
* Incarceration costs for non-violent drug offenders
* Court costs for said drug offenders
* Increased police footprint for drug surveillance
* SWAT teams and other paramilitary-esque police teams used to serve warrants to non-violent drug offenders
* Wrongful death suites from when said SWAT teams raid the wrong house and shoot someone (or someone's pet) that had absolutely nothing to do with drugs
* Maintenance of "fusion centers" and other data sharing services between disparate law enforcement organizations

and so on...

No, the problem with democracy is that we are all obsessing over ensuring that the wrong lizards don't get in.

They did, it's called Razor-Qt. It's still in heavy development last I looked but they have packages available for several of the major distros out there.

(yes, I am replying to myself, bite me mods)

Alternatively, if you want a national sales tax, basically the VAT that the UK has, you are still shafting the poor as that tax will be applied to food and other essentials, driving up their costs. The rich could soak the costs with little problem but the poor would not. Basically it all comes down to the size of the pie, if I take a quarter of an 8 inch pie that does not leave a lot for everyone else. If I take a quarter of a 24 inch pie that still leaves plenty of pie for everyone else.

Of course, you could create exemptions from the VAT but that would destroy the simplicity of it and open the door for abuse all over again. (Would caviar be exempt from the tax? It's a food after all...a luxury food yes but still technically a food)

The issue with a flat or "fair" tax is that it still shafts the poor. Let's say the tax is 10% of gross income, apply that to a median family making $50,000 per year. That makes for a $5,000 tax, leaving $45,000 for the family to live on. All in all, that's not a whole lot to live on, enough to pay rent, utilities, bills, and maybe save a a little for college, vacations, or a rainy day fund. Now let's apply that tax to a family making $500,000 per year. Yes, they pay more, $50,000 to be precise, but that leaves $450,000 for the family to live on, more than enough to live very comfortably. Thus, the Fair Tax isn't really fair, it's actually regressive in that it disproportionately affects the poor compared to the rich.

Rebuttal: RHEL derived Linuxes such as CentOS and Scientific Linux are actually able to maintain binary compatibility with RHEL They have access to the same source as the paying customers, they just don't get the updates quite as fast because of the delay between Read Hat publishing the patch and the third-party package maintainers compiling and uploading said patch to their respective repositories.

Fedora has always billed itself a test-bed for new, potentially unstable technologies. You don't want potentially broken packages? Don't use Fedora.