endangered (thus rare) fish randomly ends up in your dish?
So this is a list that gives credit only to business people for the success of Open Source
You are missing: Linus Torvalds (Linux creator), Eric S. Raymond (Open Source advocate), Bruce Perens (started Debian Linux and coined the term “Open Source”), Richard Stallman (Free Software Foundation spiritual father),
If you were aiming to credit people with substantial influence in the business part of IT, then why did you omit:
Bob Young & Marc Ewing (Red Hat founders) and Larry Page & Sergey Brin (Google founders).
This is just a list of nobodies (OSS-wise) that at some point in their life decided to use OSS in their business
of these self-validation articles!
"Do you honestly think what he's done is on the level with Martin Luther King? Or Mother Theresa? Or Linus Paulinvg?"
Hell, even Linus Torvalds has done more for world peace!
Of course it has been a factor.
As a non-US citizen I have experienced the frustration of long border controls in US and Canada
too many times, and from now on I will try my best to minimize them.
The Olympics is a celebration of peace and freedom. Please oh please no more overpoliced olympics!
So not really a short answer
Rio was the best for 3 reasons:
a) Infrastructure and preparation. Recall that they have two main events to organize within 2 years.
If the World cup is successful, no doubt they will organize an equally successful Olympics.
Even if it fails, they will have enough time to fix all the problems, which they will
have learned first hand, thus it is more likely they will absorb the lessons of failure.
b) Not a main target for terrorists etc. Face it, the US is a prime target and policing
events on the mainland is a nightmare. Also some countries are less likely
to be attacked simply because they have not pissed off as many people
as the US. So was Greece in 2004, and so will be Brazil in 2016.
c) Latin America. The Olympics should go there at some point
better than the magical city of Rio, in one of the most vibrant economies in the world?
hate to reply to my posts, but this is funny:
"What is the RIPPER?
RIPPER is an acronym for the Robotic Interplanetary Prospector Excavator and Retriever. It is an automated two-stage spacecraft and Earth Reentry Capsule (ERC) designed to land on and return samples from the smaller extraterrestrial bodies in the Solar System. This includes the moons, the asteroids, and the comets."
"Ripper"... how appropriate
They are selling lunar samples from their missions to moon starting 2012
"How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? "
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06Economic-t.html?_r=1&em=&pagewanted=all
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.