The main tool out there to do that is from Black Duck, and it's an unmitigated piece of trash that is designed for the sole purpose of scamming stupid CTOs and CEOs.

Their piece of crap database isn't even audited, so it attributes tons of code to people who stole it themselves and lists it under the wrong license. Then, if that wasn't enough, it produces so many false positives that anybody tasked with running it sets it up just enough to appease their incompetent boss while routing the results directly to /dev/null.

Far, far from awesome.

If ever a story deserved the "itsatrap" tag, it's this one.

All Microsoft had to do was remove the offending code. Instead they built themselves a 1st party case study in how the GPL is a virus that forces companies to give up their intellectual property.

Removed the redundancy from that for you...

Have you ever considered that they're doing you a favor? People who get family domain names based on their own name are usually the worst combination of dorky and egotistical. Do yourself a favor and register something creative instead.

I'll give you a hint. The company is referred to with a two letter acronym that starts with an "H". They've spun off all but one of their best divisions over the last decade, and they're about to fold their printer division (The last that makes anything innovative or of any quality) into the division that makes their worst-in-class PCs. They also just bought 3Com.

People your age don't vote. And when the few exceptions to that rule do vote, they vote largely Democratic no matter how much said party screws them over. So why should they throw you a bone? You better hope the loans aren't subsidized, 'cause every few years they dick over the people they offered the subsidies to, and give the money to other prospective students. That way they can brag about how they're helping the problem of high tuition costs.

The worst part? Tuition rates are essentially tied to the maximum amount of money you're allowed to borrow. So if government loans went away, schools would be forced to lower tuition.

From the linked PDF:

According to NPR, the turnout for the last mayoral election was 17%. His previous run the turnout was 26%. What was that again about voting?

That only works with low turn-out or outright election fraud. We don't have the latter, so the answer is "The electorate is dumb". If they were smart they'd go vote.

In the recent debate he claimed there was no evidence he was corrupt. I guess this show's it's 'cause he deletes most of it...

When confronted with the fact that he sold city property to two of his friends for really cheap, he said that it was "only two out of hundreds of deals". I guess it's OK to break the law if you only do it a couple percent of the time?

Best part? He's going to win again.

Seems to me that the bigger the city, the more stupid the voters are...

That is a horrible, horrible anecdote to use as guidance for others. To lead the life she lives successfully you have to both work incredibly hard, and get incredibly lucky. You may as well plan to grow up to be a rock star.

Telling anybody that they should go tens of thousands of dollars into debt for an education in whatever suits their fancy, while planning to do nothing of the sort when you leave is terrible advice, even if you have this great story about somebody who made it work.

You screwed up that last part:

Developers to Management: "Wait, we've heard that marketing says the game has 5 different skill levels and 150 game levels, and the real numbers are 3 and 100 respectively. Also contrary to what they've been saying, we only have a Playstation version, not an XBOX 360 version"
Management: "Who cares? We'll have sold 3 million copies before the first one gets unwrapped on Christmas, and we don't accept returns! We can say the rest is coming in a patch. And when we finish it we'll call it an expansion!"
Developers: "We're all going to hell".

Incidentally, EA bought the rights in response to 2K gaining significant market share on Madden. Additionally, 2K had started to sell their annual edition for $20 (Half of what Madden cost at the time). Rather than enter into a price-war, EA decided they could screw everybody out of their money by making a deal.

Sports games are the ones with the lowest overall development costs for EA. They get to re-use 90%+ of the assets and code from the previous year and get to charge full price. All they need to pay is marketing and licensing. It's a perfect market for a price war, and you can only sustain high prices by changing the rules.

They dropped it because EA secured exclusive rights in 2004, giving them an actual monopoly on NFL video games, and forcing 2K to abandon theirs.

Blitz: The League is *not* an NFL game.