Thank God for Apple stock (for me at least :).
I remember in ~October of 1998 thinking of buying AAPL. It was floating around $5/share I believe.
Everyone was telling me to buy Microsoft. By this point I was becoming a "ABM" system administrator. They're stock was floating right about where it is today (~$25/share)...

The only stock I'm interested in is companies I believe in that produce something I like. Day trading in some chemistry company I know nothing about does not Interest me.

I hesitated (and was second guessing myself in those days). I could have tripled my money in that one year with AAPL.
In that same year there was a MSFT split AND they nearly doubled their price. They've been dead since...

Bottom line -- a decade later and both companies have each had two splits. My $15 APPL stock is worth over $315 (today) while MSFT is still at ~$25/share. There is a reason for this. Microsoft has forced people to use their crap and those days are seriously numbered. Apple, OTOH, gives their customers what they want. Thus they become foaming at the mouth Apple loyalists like myself. I understand now (and am laughing all the way to the bank).

In looking at these two companies Apple has pretty much always been innovative and led the pack. No floppies with a Mac? People laughed. See many floppies today? Microsoft has historically always been a "me too" company (with very few exceptions).

The ONLY product that Microsoft has done that makes me shake my head and wonder why Apple didn't do it is the KIN. Cool idea. Problem: WHERE is Apple's gaming console???

Looks more like an endorsement for proposition 19.
I want what he's smoking!

I want your commute, just not your job. You work 52 weeks a year? No vacation, holidays, or sick days?
Heck, I want my old commute back. 5 minutes each way. ~40 minute commute for the entire year
Now it is 47 * 5 * 2 = 470 free hours. Almost twenty days a year just sitting in the car. Blech.

http://youropenbook.org/ is still very much up. Look up "vacation" and be amazed. Found a guy on there the other day letting everyone know he was going to Disney World for the next 11 days. He lived in NH and had a listed phone number...

Let me guess. You work for Toyota?

I agree w/ you 100% Regardless of positions the moment Novell agreed to get in bed w/ Microsoft was the day I 1) shutdown and remaining Novell servers and 2) sold my stock in their company.

Simply a dumb idea. NeXT.

I couldn't find one person in a compromising position or act.

~27.5 million dump trucks (+/-2%:) worth.
Which sadly is easily filled with last years equipment...

I don't believe this is a mistake. They themselves are ordinary people. I am a extraordinary geek and am not scared by a compiler. Programming, however, is not "my job" or a hobby. I don't have the developer license to get the compiler to compile it, but guess what? I feel that I can (and probably won't). It would be much cheaper for me (or my mom) to just buy the packaged game.

No different than me buying the packaged Redhat distribution I like -- some of it with really OLD code. Code that when originally written the coders probably never imaged their code would still be in use, much less sold 20 years later.

My mom has complete access, freely, and easily to a [Intel / AMD] based Linux system which also happens to have the compiler installed (I use it :). She's never even seen code, much less would understand it and would find compiling any program a unattainable task (most likely). Thus I guess any GPL'd (or otherwise) source code useless?

Per the GPL, and in my opinion, their app IS "free as in beer" and yes, they should feel completely absolved of any "wrong doing" (there was none). legally or morally.

I hope they make a TON of money selling the app. Far exceeding covering their costs. More power to them!

Why ask, when it does look like you already answered your own question:
"Money really doesn't mean much to us as long as we can do whatever we want while excelling at our passions."

Too boot you stated that when your project goes gold you're estimating to make even more money than what is being offered. Keep the project. Do what you enjoy while excelling your abilities and knowledge on your time and your rules.

NeXT

Hopefully they have "finds Subway repulsive" on file for me.

They do now...

I have had another idea [yes, patent pending :-] ... why not a pyramid cone shaped cover protecting the air intake? The cone would extend enough to allow adequate air intake (from now the sides). I'm doing the math to determine if at the top of the cone it should be solid (not open) as that area of intake would be affecting air flow over the top of the wing (thus screwing with lift). Keep in mind that the air intake (where ever it happens) has nothing to do with being able to fly -- nor does the output (thrust). It is the airflow over the wings that gives lift. Just a patented thought (with no obvious implementation [prior art] that I've found yet).

It was Bulldog (Firewall or Linux) if I remember correctly.
I can't find reference to their history / challenges.
The only link I can barely find is (which may not be the one I'm thinking of): http://tanaya.net/BullDog/index.shtml