Why? They can just tell everyone to use NetBeans or JDeveloper!

You DO get IP, even if it's free software. Even with the GPL, you could stop distributing old versions and re-license future versions if you control the copyright. Open source projects aren't alone in having employees that will leave in an acquisition, and it's clear that whether everyone leaves after an acquisition is almost entirely dependent on the specifics of the deal. You get revenue from support contracts, and your customers aren't going to switch to a new branch just because of a change in ownership if the new owners are sympathetic, and a new branch may not even come about.

Yeah, there's risk that any of your problems could happen but everyday business is a risk too.

Oracle already has a J2EE server now that they own WebLogic through the BEA acquisition.

You know those belts don't indicate actual martial arts skill, right?

Perl would have caught those errors as well, assuming the programmer was not an idiot and used the "strict" pragma.

It's not news, it's slashdot.org!

German Eisbocks are still considered beers, but at 55% alcohol, this is just really crappy infused whiskey.

Serious beer drinkers, YHBT.

Modern autopilot technology calls for a crew of a human and a dog. The human's job is to feed the dog. The dog's job is to bite the human if he or she attempts to touch the controls.

Exactly. FOr I/O bound tasks a 6-core system with a slower front-side bus could be outperformed by even a single-core system with faster memory bandwidth.

And the PDP-10 had bytes in any size from 1 to 36 bits.

Go back to the beginning of the short string. You know the comparison will fail, so it doesn't really matter as long as you don't follow some random pointer.

This has never been true for dye-sublimation printers, which do not require dithering.

I'm not talking about icecast as a directory client. I'm talking about the module that was removed from VLC. Read the press release from VideoLAN:

SHOUTcast Radio is a web site which provides a directory of radio stations avalaible on the Internet. It provides categorizations of such stations, so it is easier to find one that matches your interest. According to users feedback, the integration of such directory inside VLC is one of the best features of the software.

Listening to Shoutcast or icecast streams is done by many projects. I doubt you'd need a license from Nullsoft to do so.

Shoutcast predates icecast. And, in any case, this appears to have been a Shoutcast directory client, not a media server.