It makes me sound pompous because I am! :)

I fail to see why this is a "deeply symbolic moment in the history of operating systems" and not merely a moderately interesting moment in the corporate history of the respective companies (or, more specifically, in Red Hat's corporate history). Red Hat may represent Linux, but it's not Linux, and market capitalization, being a function of share price, is a less interesting metric then any measurement of the actual use of the operating systems these companies produce. Anyone who remembers the Red Hat IPO will know that share price is more closely tied to hype than to particularly signficant tecnical advances.

Oh, a SMEPED. Why didn't you just say so in the first place? Damn marketing boys with their fancy-sounding "Sectera". How the heck are we supposed to know what a "Sectera" is? That don't even stand for anything!

From my perspective, it is sufficiently advanced technology to be regarded as magic. Of course, I haven't watched TFA.

The industry minister's response is like saying in the controversy concerning battles at the arena, the Industry Minister said "we will continue to leave the matter between the Christians on the one hand and the lions on the other".