...if the web sites for OpenSolaris, OpenOffice, VirtualBox, and other Oracle-supported projects had links pointing to things that Oracle sells they might generate revenue.
Somewhat.
China is the new ideologically opposed super power, so it would still be 2nd world. Russia itself may soon be out of second world status though.
You are to file an official complaint to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russian Federation www.mvd.ru , into the department "K" (Fight against Computer Crimes).
The website in Russian language, but I think it is not difficult to find someone who studied Russian in a school or know it natively. It may well work.
That's like asking if software is profitable? Not without a business pan. For some it is, and some it is not.
What's next? Hey, is selling ice cream profitable?
Now, bleeding heart hippy liberals
When a sentence begins with something like this, it's written by either a troll, a political tool, or a honest to goodness moron. Which one are you?
Thus, if you are asked a question of the form "Did you take pictures of nekkid kids?" then you can invoke the Fifth. However, if you are asked "Only you and Bob could have taken the pictures? Which one of you did it?" then you can only refuse to answer if you did it. If Bob did it, then you have no Fifth Amendment protection, and you must incriminate Bob, or be held in contempt. If you refuse to answer, a jury draw inference from your refusal. The Bill of Rights offers you no protection from that.
So in short, the 5th amendment has no meaning. You can only refuse to answer if you're guilty, and the jury knows that, so it's as good as a confession.
1s44c, please don't take this as criticism toward you. I'm just taking this as an example.
Most people on IT really have no idea what high-availability is. They should talk to some people on the telecom industry.
For example: having 2 systems that are virtually equal, one as backup as the other, is just not HA. For real HA, you need to have 2 systems as different from each other as possible, including bands. One box is Intel ? Make the other AMD. It is even better if you can have a PC and a non-PC system, but usually you can't justify the budget for that.
This is called "single point of failure". And, as you said, that is EXACTLY where the problem will happen.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!