Not possible. They cannot prevent you from using your own work as you wish, under any circumstances, period, end of story. They can prevent you from using their work.

This kind of crap is the Stallmanite stork in trade: lay out a dystopian vision where programmers' work is taken away from them never to be seen again. If they'd quite peddling this lie, then things would be a lot calmer.

Uhm, no. If you need to restrict others' freedom, then ue the GPL - because that restricts freedoms int he name of preserving them. Just like the classic "fucking for virginity".

True freedom must necessarily include the freedom to do things that piss others off, or else it is not truly free. The difference between soi-disant "free software" and BSD-licensed code is that the latter includes the freedom to do things that piss RMS off.

Pay the licenses, or out-compete them with freely available code. There's considerable experience by now that says the latter will win every time.

No, I'm not posting just to start a flamewar. As for substantiation, the data have been untrustworthy ever since Climategate.

No. I am an atheist.

Was that before or after the historical data was fudged in ways the 'climate science" community won't disclose?

(And no, moderators, I'm not trolling. This is a legitimate question.)

"Troll" is Slashdot moderator-ese for "I don't agree with you and think no reasonable person could hold that opinion, so you must be trolling". It's far too overused; personally, I think it should be abolished entirely.

That part of the Voting Rights Act wasn't struck down.

Did they take into account the Voting Rights Act provision that requires that minority voters be concentrated into districts that they have a good likelihood of winning? That alone has the effect of diluting minority strength elsewhere.

The deal is very likely structured so the Senate won'/t be consulted. Just more of Barack Obama's contempt for the Constitution.

How's he gonna get out?

"That's not a knife. This is a knife."

Uhm...your history is backwards. rpm came first, as did Red Hat.

Now get off my lawn.

If your salesdroids can't turn that openness and transparency into an advantage, you have the wrong salesdroids. Anything can be marketed as a competitive advantage.

Hell, they should be pushing to prospects that you don't let bugs slip through the cracks. You get bug reports and post them for all to see, and you can't just ignore them in such an environment. That makes your product more robust, not less.

Chuck Jones, call your office.