Yes, if they open source it, the community can maintain it.

Let's say they release .NET 5.0 *only* for Windows 10. If there's demand, a third party will back-port it to 7 or possibly as far back as XP.

Perhaps it's 1 reason device makers are shipping devices without removal storage.

No sd card, no fat patent licensing required.

There's #develop and monodevelop.

Neither have the polish of VS.Net, obviously. But with the release of the .net box and dice, integration may become sweeter.

Desal...

My apologies, I've been bitten by a troll. Not you but the GP that suggested Skype didn't support 12.04 LTS.

The download page explicitly says Ubuntu 12.04 multiarch as one of the download options.

Skype needs to 'value-add' or facebook/google+, via webrtc, will make them redundant.

Tieing it to windows is no surprise given its owner.

14.04 is an LTS release.

Any reason you can't/won't upgrade?

Compatibility with MS applications has historically been a driver for implementing Wine.

norteamericano, estadounidense, yanqui, gringo...

americano can also refer to a weak black coffee.

Apple would want to avoid a Windows RT debacle. Rebadging the mac mini as an ARM HTPC might work, where there's no confusion it'll run amd64 Photoshop.

If developers are (have been recently) still producing fat binaries for PPC, adding a checkbox for ARMv8 in Xcode doesn't seem a stretch.

Christians too.

Like the time the western church was on the way to palestine, took a wrong turn and conquered the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman Empire at Constantinople. (4h crusade)

It surprises me that Google doesn't actually have their own online 'newspaper'. They could employ an editor to create a mashup of the best stories online, with a profit-sharing arrangement on ads.

I'd prefer a dedicated web page than, say, facebook injecting clickbait through their universally hated 'Top Stories'.

my two local newspapers have introduced paywalls, with a minimal number of free articles a month. One is fairly decent, the other is Rupert's trashy tabloid, complete with celebrity gossip and miracle weight loss cures. Syndicating the former through Google could reach an international audience, along with selected articles from other online sources and Google's ubiquity would ensure those articles chosen need not be subscription only.

But usually I stick to abc.net.au via RSS for news, despite the vandals in the federal government wanting to destroy it. 8 cents a day...

Immigrants, often on student visas, are the only ones willing to work for taxi companies on "shitty" pay?

since exactly when is Java-integration zero overhead?

When the organisation you're developing for is a 'Java shop'. The selling point here for Kawa over, say, Racket is that a solution can be deployed to a Java EE container.

c.f. jruby, nashorn/rhino, jython

commie fascists

Oxymoron?