Windows might not be Open Source and MS business practices may be something to be desired, but they are an open platform. And when you look at the platforms that were around when Windows came to light, there really wasn't much that was that successful where just anyone could develop for it. Even today, companies like Apple, Nintendo, Amazon, Sony, (the list is rather lengthy) want to sell you a solid product. They want everything to be an appliance to you, like a dvd player or your tv.. where you don't notice, nor care about the software on it. An article a while back was describing why Windows Mobile and Android will, in the long run, destroy Apple in the phone market, and in the end, it will be because of the availability of applications for them. Apple and Nintendo and Amazon and so forth, want to be the gatekeepers of software and content, and frankly.. looking at the success of MS on the desktop, that approach doesn't seem to be a successful one. Video game systems will be the last bastion of this mentality though, i can promise you that.

umm, the defaults (fat32 formatted keys) work just fine in every distro automatically. Gnome and KDE are great at giving a way to automount in their file managers. What's the problem?

just to note, EVERY distro, except for gentoo (oddly enough) has vi installed.

then i hope you don't use pipes, grep, sed, awk, mutt, mpd, rtorrent, irssi, cat, vim, vi, or any traditional unix tools.

i have a cronjob that updates a list for me on my ipcop router and blocks it at the router level. Kinda nice as it does this for everything on my network.

you don't get it, keybindings can be much faster than buttons. Try out vimperator sometime.

what the fuck does OS X have to do with any of this? This was a conversation about browsers, i'm sure uzbl can run on OS X just as well as on Linux. Jesus you Mac tards are fucking assholes who just jump at the fucking chance to jam your feng shui tonka toys down peoples throats whenever you're not sipping on a fucking latte.

it has been my experience that everything regarding steep learning curves in *nix, ends up revealing benefits those who never try will never know of. Try explaining to the average windows user how vim is better than notepad vs watching someone learn vim and having their face light up everytime they figure out they can do something very quickly that's impossible in a standard text editor

everything except... i don't know, follow the rules for Mozilla's Addon policy? Everything except act as malware?

i'm not so much concerned about what money who makes from what as I am as extensions, without ample notification, acting as malware against other software/extensions i have installed in order to make a buck. I moved to linux long ago b/c i was tired of having to run scans once a week. I switch to FF b/c i prefered a more secure browser (made even more secure by extensions). Now basically, this guy, has managed to get malware in both firefox and linux. Seriously, total douchebag move.

the sheer fact that the noscript dev acted in this fashion is unforgivable. security problems be damned, there will be no more noscript on my site. Since it's gpl'd hopefully someone will fork it from this asshole.

i'd be making some tin foil hat joke at this point but all i'm left with is my jaw dropped.

zimbra does this.