You forgot at least two layers of virtualization you use to "run Linux" on those servers.

If anything, competition from Microsoft causes people to hastily add features and polished look while infesting their products with boatloads of bugs and painting themselves into a corner as far as technology development is concerned. The best projects are those that ignore Microsoft completely, Linux among them.

No, the fungus watches Fox News.

They can not be standardized because any "Computer Engineer" without sufficient Electrical Engineering background is actually a Shit Engineer.

And that would create a massive mess of dependencies in weirdest places, along with a burden of supporting software that can not even be built and tested while some other software is installed, thanks to name conflicts. No, after this kind of sabotage by the original developers, the code is for all practical purposes dead.

Gentoo actually supports old packages (or at least did for a long time), however dependencies and lack of active development make it at best suitable for transition. The problem is, there is nothing to move to in the first place, new versions of GNOME are not going to be usable for the foreseeable future.

Linux distributions had no choice -- GNOME 3 re-uses the names of components from GNOME 2, for its new, incompatible ones. Once GNOME 3 is installed, GNOME 2 can't run. MATE project basically renamed everything with randomly chosen names, just to make the thing run.

VxWorks is hardly "modern".

Then post a job ad with ERP in the list of requirements, tell your HR not to check for ERP in submitted resumes, and ignore all recruiters, you fools.

What's "summer"* and how is it relevant for people who are not in school?

*) Written in California.

It is very much a bad thing when studying squishy fiction writing is touted as a recipe for better reasoning.

People who don't know anything about science should not read scientists' criticism of shitty scientists.

No, US blames China for every exploit, and China likes to posture. In reality it's mostly organized crime, and there is plenty of that in Russia.

Unrelated to that -- who cares, at least it keeps US from bringing up invasion of Syria or other truly idiotic crap.

And this kis why dual licensing is sucha bad idea -- enemies of the project have an incentive to buy the primary developer and only continue development under the worst of the licenses.

There is no god, and therefore there arte no god-given right.

One may say that government _recognizes_ the right instead of granting it, but the difference is purely cosmetic -- it is government's decision as implemented in law, what is and what is not a right, and someone may agree or disagree with it, but there is nothing objective about it, at best government implements what majority of people believe to be important right. However as history progresses, this changes -- for example, owning slaves was a right in early US, and now it is not.