While I liked the intention of your joke on the Dems, left it is only left if to the left of the center. Being to the left or extreme right, but still very right, does not qualify. :-P

...and when I read that, I thought of the Borg queen... Humm... :)

From a conversation I had at GDC a couple years ago with an army guy involved in the project, the main goal was not recruitment, quite the opposite.

He claimed that the army looses a lot of money and resources in training new people, who just give up somewhere along the training or right after it. So the game was originally developed to try to show that "real combat" is not what happens in FPSs and thus weed out some of the applicants.

Of course, the PR impact was welcome.

From TFS:

They are not talking about internet usage. They're talking about overall information consumption. So torrent users has not much to do with it at all.

Not that I believe their number.

Unless it's the God of Reverse Engineering. :-P

Why? Retaliation for the pigeons having shot the LHC first?

Wait for the conflict escalation. WW3 here we go.

How the hell is the parent post offtopic for giving an example of how waiting to be worried "later" is a slippery slope?

Someone with mod points, please mod parent up.

Any kind of altruism, unless truly anonymous, is marketing, or egoism (or both).

Oh no! We're doomed. How do you kill a tree zombie? They don't have heads to shoot at.

Aaaahhhhh

What part of me saying

makes you think I'm trying to guess how they number their releases?

Where are my mod point when I need them?! :)

I'd change your definition to "before we consider the initial version of our work complete". This is exactly why I mentioned sub 1.0 version number in a piece of free software. It means there is no marketing department requiring bumping up the version number to impress anybody.

So, as you say, the devs themselves don't think it has the capabilities to be granted the 1.0 number. For whatever reasons they feel.

The key word here is "might". It might, it might not. One also has to consider that even if the system does have all the features you want and seems stable, is it being properly tested and maintained? Has it been around long enough for it to count as some indication that the devs aren't going to just give up on it soon? Is there already a community around it?

All of this goes into choosing a sub-1.0 project for something important. This is what I meant. To depend on an early version of a piece of software is too big of a commitment without the proper analysis of these and many other issues, most of which are not related to the features per se.

And, in any case, it is free software. So anyone can fork the project and continue with it. And it seems there is actually a fork of this project to keep it running over FreeBSD.

None of this changes what I said. If whoever is using it and worried about its future did consider this issues, good for them. If not, well...

I don't want to be inflammatory, but having "concerns regarding the future of their existing setups" when using a piece of free software in version 0.7 for something as important as data storage?

I'd say that if your setup is so important you care so much for its future and you're facing this scenario, you have bigger concerns to take care than a move from FreeBSD to Linux.

Apple QuickTime.

On the other hand, if you mean Qt. It's a GUI (and much else) toolkit developed by Trolltech, which was acquired by Nokia some time ago. :-P
Also, now Qt is LGPL.