what a load of crap...

i will say only few things:
author wants Internet industry to be like phone industry.
while most phone monopolists and oligopolists are in ISP business too, design and business methods for Internet services are quite different from phone services and even they have to abide that difference. their old methods still work and their old services still actual only because of their size and ubiquitous infrastructure. but even they will have to become pure Internet data pipe some day which they don't like a one bit.

author wants IPv6 to be IPv4, or simply, not to be at all.
yeah, let's just be sitting on our asses until our very death and leave changing the world and ways of living for the next generation... well, we already have generation of doofuses who honestly believe that NAT is a security feature in contrary to the principle of non-routed address spaces which it broke, among other things.

author says that networking enthusiasts ignore IPv6 because of "opensource" DD-WRT.
DD-WRT is quasi-proprietary at best. if you want true opensource and Free Software you go with OpenWRT. and it has full-fledged IPv6 support. even works on my old shitty hardware.

what ? IPv6 is almost the same as IPv4 in network design.
the only significant difference is that with it you can build network by their actual supposed design without a lot of crutches and work-around to conserve address space and to adapt to the scale it was not designed for.

IPv6 is design for present and future.
IPv4 was designed for estranging past and have accreted with ugly hacks. it is inadequate for modern networking and so is the mindset of people who can't comprehend IPv6 and problems it solves.

maybe words "lazy" and "incompetent" are not 100% correct in that aspect but breaking standards and piling up mountains of workarounds for every single issue isn't something that i would call "a job well done" either.

your entire example is like that: each "step" introducing more problems than it "fixes" because it's not fixing anything really. only breaking expected behaviour more for a nasty surprise. should you expect such issues arise in future because of that ? hell yeah!
it would be better in a long run not too pretend to be smarter than the users of your software or the creators of environment (OS/hardware) your software expected to be run in and let them fix/identify underlaying problems properly (like fatal error/wrong behaviour/etc. and power failure/hardware meltdown/etc. in your example).

so, please, don't pretend that this have nothing to do with improper programmer work. be it by the fault of programmers themselves, management or influence of some outside trend, order of things similar to your example is not OK pattern to follow.
and if it is OK for you to leap from standard approaches to "anything goes" as part of your "normal" workflow just because technical, hardware and target systems "requirements change" [or because life is generally hard and doing job is generally tough], maybe word "incompetent", which you yourself have introduced into this thread, is not that out of place after all...
and your own advice goes both ways.

no, "they" take pride in doing their thing with disregard to proprietary requirements (which mostly are in not changing architectural design as long as proprietary authors are unwilling to make changes in the basis of their software which relies on that design. and they mostly always indefinitely are).

well, you can't please everyone by the same thing.

oh, to my shame i've never read it :(

but soon we all, probably, will witness something alike and it will be even gloomier. i myself used to watch "news" TV programs as entertainment instead of usual cartoons in school years, then i got back to cartoons after realizing that those weren't parodies, that all this pretty damn creepy and unsettling stuff is how someone wants masses to see the world. and violence and atrocities are nowhere as ugly as omissions, innuendos and hypocrisy.
no way i'm buying another brainscrewing box in my life. better to watch some cartoons on PC's big monitor with my wife beside.

exactly, they have made usage of "alternate operating systems" and disabling the DRM cumbersome enough for only a few hard-bitten tech maniacs to benefit and only in the extremely unhandy way.
i'm pretty sure that's good enough for those bastards to consider whole ordeal as success, unfortunately.

I think i will call that opensource-spirited and openly developed software as "Free software".

Overall, whole thing sounds like another rehash of free-as-of-price vs. open-source vs. free/libre talk. Some people just don't get the difference, especially between last two.

more like if you don't know your way well enough.
someday i managed to break portage (screwed up python and more) and half the system for good too but fixed it anyway (at worst, you can find working pre-compiled binaries on net as recovery starting crutch). it only comes down to your skill and patience. my Gentoo survived through 3 HDDs, several MBs and CPUs since its initial installation on old x86_64 AMD-based system. relocation as easy as archiving and extracting everything in another place. x86 CPUs are pretty compatible - once i copied it on Intel-based laptop just for a hell of it and it ran as usual.

Linux systems run and survive as you able to make them so unless your particular distribution made by random-shit-patching hack-loving short-sighted monkeys but even in that case - it's you who installed it.

And what a hell this should do with "Linux" at all ?

Granted, it runs Linux Kernel but everything else have nothing... _nothing_ to do with what people (and looks like you are not an exception) refer to when they say "Linux". Everything else Google made from scratch. And on Java. That Java: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
And even its in-Kernel bits were ditched from mainstream Kernel for failing in quality and lack of support.
"Linux's chaos and complexity"... riiight. Someone, prescribe anti-inflammatory to that man, stat !

And Nokia. Nokia has bought and support Qt, most awesome multiplatform pure C/C++-and-more toolkit, and is cooperating with Intel so tight that they actually have discontinued their "Maemo" product in favor of merged project "MeeGo". Both if which, by the way, have real repositories and not this cut-down malware-infested crap. And you don't need to search for cryptic instructions and have telepathic powers to put your hands in its guts.

It is, however, indeed disturbing how Google don't apparently give a damn about "Android" name and not hauling its ass for the rescue :\
Vendor slovenliness, ugly behavior, one vulnerability after another and shitload of advertisement and dangerous, from the looks of it now - WTF ? Even i have got into situation when F/OSS-fanatic like me dissuades friends and alike from buying Android-based things.

Thanks you, there is n900 for me... with some real "Linux" in it.