Umm...

OpenBSD is not a company - so a 'marketing guy' is superfluous -
and there is absolutely 0% chance of them ever taking over 'like Money Tribbles'
and there is no 'storehouse of value' except for keeping the project going

cheers for the math - plus a couple things to remember:

1) These are mostly *build* machines - so they are frequently operating near the top end of their energy consumption and generating the top end of heat
2) some of these are pretty old / less power efficient machines, and there are a few disk arrays in there as well, which brings them more into the 800-1200w range
        easily

FreeBSD's pf still came from OpenBSD...

Hmm... I think they came from CHICAGO and GENEVA and AUSTRIA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply-side_economics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_school_%28economics%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement

riight.. because all software test cases cover all scenarios every time

Google is not legally required to have data integrity, to care about your data, or to have any concern for a system or application crash,
and their applications, when crashing, don't affect anyone in a 'real' way (e.g. losing peoples entire savings, having them die, etc)
other than whiny users until they can fix the issue or spin the loss of user data in the press.

Just because Teh Googz is doing it, doesn't mean it's the right technology for all applications.

DURR

Your whole argument presumes that said fingerprinting, scanning, etc. is justified itself..

DURR

Is VisualBasic better than VisualNodeJSDevStudioWithIPTablesAndAppStoreSupportPlugin2014?

lol

Indeed:

Newsflash: Greedy Patent Troll Developer Hires Unscrupulous Lawyers to Sue!

I fail to see how this is any different..

Yea - except for this bit of BS false dichotomy:

" ... MUD had a text-based interface, but *despite that* ...
"

OMG It's like games are more than their user interface!

OMG It's like we shouldn't equate technological sophistication with Teh Shinies!

All excellent points -

relatedly, noone is developing or releasing X windows applications *targeted* at these other platforms -
which is the same 'position' X will be in in this 'run x on wayland' world - further implying that over time
less and less applications will run on X, further implying that over time network transparency will
decrease more and more (since only the new firefox or libreoffice or whatever major software decides not to support X),
so this is a bad *direction* to be headed in.

I have no problems rearchitecting the X server infrastructure to have a fast low layer, and a simplified api talking
to this layer (that remains X, and therefore network-multiclient compatible), which is what most of the (non developer weenie)
people complaining about so-called 'crufty x' are talking about -

but don't !@#$ ruin out of ignorance and shortsightedness the good things in X because of the bad - fix the bad, and
make it compatible with what is.

ditto systemd, dbus and all of that stuff.

dbus? why not just f!@#$ing use the 127.0.0.1 loopback or require setting up a private multicast network????

nono, we need some crappy daemon writting using the hairball that is GLib-object-C being tied into *everything*
on the system.

derp derp derp.

Because when the wayland display manager crashes, you don't lose any applications at the time? or explorer.exe? or QuartzCompositor or whatever its called on osx, etc?

what is the point of this post?

are you saying that the single-process managing X displays is less stable than the single process running these others?

umm.. because if you are, you are probably wrong.
and if you're not, you're not making any sense.

After years of twitching on the gurney, Mayer is finally taking some kind of extreme measures to fix Yahoo's head.

Whether it is the right measure or not remains to be seen

You have to give these slashdotters more credit: They are really trying to do the best they can: Having no skills themselves, the only reasonable metric is time spent commenting on internal matters for a company they know nothing about! And Gweihir reputedly excels at this. If a slashdotter takes a break to consider something ratinoally, they are definitely not behaving normally in that moment, while a normal person doing the same thing is! So, from their perspective they are clearly making a profound, well informed statement on this matter.

Riiight.. because people who even know multiple customers willing to pay $10k for an exploit kit aren't seriously connected to other fraudsters and shady mafia types, and so on - e.g. 'oh hey - need to get some money sent? - I have a network of 50 people willing to accept transactions under 1k via their $account_type - I can get this to you for only a 25% transaction fee', 'I have this set of 100 accounts which are completely legal but otherwise dormant and unmonitored', 'oh, just buy 500 items from my bogus web dildo store', etc.