Or AMD/Cyrus/etc did wtih the x86 instruction set. Or what Intel did with teh amd64 instruction set?

You create what amounts to a function, accessed either by including a library/header/whatever, or perhaps by passing a bunch of particular GET/POST/PUT arguments to a particular URL structure on a webserver. You know if you ask item foo to process bar you will get back fee in some agreed on form. You then make this public knowledge, or at least known to your customers and whoever reads your publicly available documentation. This shouldn't be protected. Anyone should be able to make an item called foo that when asked to process bar will return fee in a specified format.

Now, what happens internally when foo is running and doing its thing can be protected, and should be.

Depends on where in Florida. You realize it is a big state...

Here in N Florida (Gainesville) we've had snow as many times as hurricane hits in my life time.

Yup - ya can't grep a dead tree.

But in the mid-late 90s, everyone was pretty much on dialup, unless they were at a college in a dorm, etc. I had a high speed connection thru work/school but then CD burners were several hundred dollars each. For me at the time, the best way to get a new distribution for install was to buy the book that came wtih the CD. The various Unleashed books, etc.

Funny, every copy of Red Hat and Slackware I bought in the late '90s ('97 thru '99) came with a nice book/manual. Often times, worth the price of just the book/manual, install and source CDs were just gravy.

Yes. But at the same time, some apartment complexes do have their own cable tv, internet, etc. that is included in the rent, at least here in a college town. As do several of the "old folks not quite nursing home apartment dwelling" places around here.

So yeah, if everyone in the building is gonna get it, makes sense to just make it part of the building.

The gnu32 utils were the textutils, fileutils,etc. collections compiled for Win32. I would imagine you can still find them on the interwebs somewhere.

But are there any dependency issues in Windows? Been ages since I've used it, but I don't recall having to chase down DLL files, other installers, etc. to get something to install or run properly....

(oh, and on the similar story the other day I got a -1 troll for asking if we could check out c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\apt\sources.list)

Can the victim(s) use the various copyright laws against these pigs? And yes, I call 'em pigs - there is a big difference between an officer of the law and a pig or a cop....

cat c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\apt\sources.list

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In my case, Ubuntu was very close and 10.04 was working great for some very non-technical people who wanted to check facebook and gmail and write the occasional paper.

Then the gnome3/unity crap started....

Now they are very happy with Mint and the MATE desktop.

The flood of Indian Ishsapore Enfields that hit the surplus market a few years ago are all 7.62 NATO ...

The Indian ones are typically in 762x51 NATO (aka 308 winchester) not 303 brit

Additionally, in a year you may get much more for your $10 per month. I'll give an example using Linode - when I first started using them 10+ years ago, I paid $20/mo for 32mb ram and a few gigs of storage, and about 20 gigs of transfer IIRC. I still pay $20/mo... but I now have not quite 50gb on SSD drives, 2gb of ram, and 3tb of transfer.

Darn near 100% of 'em too, depending on how you do your polling....