If you are a professional engineer you sign that you agree to a code of ethics. That includes putting your name on your work and being responsible for it. If you don't like it, don't go into the profession. If you do something wrong like obfuscate the trail of a life threatening defect, you own it. Also, fact the engineers didn't go public with the defect should also be owned by them and they should lose their professional accreditation and face jail time due to their not honouring their code of ethics in outing dangerous conditions. If this were done more often, engineers would do what they're supposed to. A few people in Ontario several years ago were killed in a mall collapse when an engineer didn't do what he was supposed to. He is facing jail time and loss of accreditation.

The government/NSA doesn't want it's monopoly on aerial observation and spying infringed upon.

Who cares if they export there? They still take the money. That means all those places are their markets.

The population of those four combined is half of the population of North America. Heck, try 90 % of the world's population drives left hand drive vehicles. And in case you missed the memo, Mazda and all the other Japanese car makers have figured out how to send cars to other countries. A new a novel thing called 'the boat' helped with that. The international market dwarfs the Japanese market.

WTF are you talking about? Most of the world drives on the right side of the road using left hand drive cars.

Maybe he watches too much Trailer Park Boys.

It's the dying that really gets you. One of my best friends died of complications due to measles when I was around 12.

A good example of this is from back in the day, people trying to learn C++ after being a C programmer. It was very common to write bastardized C programs with C++ syntax. Mostly because C++ doesn't force you to write object oriented. I found it easier to learn Java first then go back and learn C++, because you had to understand OO better to write Java.

As a cushion then, while one comes up to speed on something else. Sounds fair enough.

This can't come soon enough.

OK, so they rely on a spin off project on it's own, and the rest of the world goes on with HTML5 which will continue to be improved and expanded. Which one will provide more use in the long run? So, OpenFL, is a way to avoid learning new technology. Hopefully it doesn't lead people down a one way street.