Some developers are very happy to have their work included in something and used widely. BSD makes companies include an acknowledgement of the use of your work, so you can know you made that project happen. Presumably, if a lot of money is being made by some company that includes your free software, you've helped build something cool that people want. I think a lot of developers see GPL as a "taking my toys and going home" license which discourages free use. If you weren't going to make a million dollar idea with your software, why stop someone else?

Do you get the cash? No. Are your motives really that good if you opened your software only to make money? No. Does a commercial venture using your code prevent free projects from springing up around your work and building the same things as you could if you'd GPL'd it? No.

As a foreigner living in the US, I'm curious as to whether these internet taxes are the similar or different to interstate mail order. That's been going on a lot longer. Can I make an Amazon competitor using snail-mail?

Yup, I also use Crumpler. They're very handy for travel and well padded. I don't know if they're still made waterproof, but mine survived 10hrs in the rain without any moisture on the inside..

Can that open source OS do anything his blackberry OS can't?

This sounds like an excellent open source hobby kit, but a practical device it does not appear to be.

Nah, it's great! You carve the country up 50 ways, introduce 50 more governments to manage the states and then you bitch and moan about taxes and how much you spend on government. For added expense, throw in heavy-weight county and municipal administrations, too.

We've been calling web services "web applications" for years. Why is it wrong to abbreviate them to "web apps" or just "apps"?

This.

The first Symbian product shipped under than name in 2001 (according to wikipedia). Blackberry shipped in 2002 (also wikipedia) and was destroying it ever since. Every single Symbian phone was garbage to use. Android and iPhone have only helped push it down further towards its rightful place.

I've been using this site for much longer than Safari has had this feature:

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Does the same thing with no browser extension. You just drop it into your shortcuts on the title bar and it cleans up many webpages. Not perfect, but so much easier than blinking flash crap.

If people want you to not block their ads, make the site readable with the ads on it.

Wow, if a nine-year-old can hack into your servers and start changing stuff, you really ned to wonder about your security setup.

Sounds like Bishop from Aliens :)

... just throw out some printers. You'll save electricity and paper bills, too. If your staff are printing that many pages, you've got something wrong.

That's right! "I see your statistical analysis of 130 different studies and raise you baseless conjecture".

I'm convinced.

(This'll probably get modded as a troll, but it's no more so than the parent)

Does this mean Microsoft is going to have to support and test malware and remain bug-for-bug compatible to avoid bad press in future? That'd be awesome... "we can't accept this fix, it's not compatible with the great zombie bot of '10".

... or does Murdoch think books are just thicker newspapers?

This is exactly what he's been saying about (his) papers. However, I don't think it holds for books. People do actually like books and collecting them on bookshelves. They're unlike newspapers in many important ways.

"Defects"

Does the code someone produces work? And actually meet the spec? Or is it always broken and doesn't actually do what it was designed for?