Exactly. Last sentence in WSJ article says: If he is not charged or is acquitted of whatever charges may be made, that may well lead to the adoption of new and dangerously restrictive legislation. The way I understand ths: You live in a free speech state, but if you actually practice free speech, we will hit you with restrictive legislation. Therefor,e with practicing free speech, you are being responsible for it's destruction. So in god's name, don't do it if you want to live in free speech society.

I knew it. Only in totally free research environment that MS is practicing can you produce such groundbreaking advancements as Clippy.

What dream? Getting fired dream?

RHEL 5.3 to 5.4 is just artificial patch release. Kind of like service packs with windows. It is trivial to update, when all the programs stay at the same version and config files stay the same. We shall see how easy it will be going from 5.x to 6.x, for this won't be update like 5.x to 5.x+1, but upgrade.

Not really, it's why GPL is said to be viral.

CentOS actually helps RedHat. RedHat cannot really afford to have low cost or no cost alternative, or it would seriously damage his high margin support contracts. Aslo, those that do now want to pay for RedHat would have a lot to choose from even with absense of CentOS. And for RedHat, it's better those who want free go with CentOS then say Debian. But, with Centos, their platform expands massively so more ISV's support it, students and admin's are willing to learn RedHat (via CentOS), and their developer base also grows.

People modding you insighful shows lack of understanding. Preventing monopoly abuse is anti-capitalism? It seems to me USA with it's monopoly abuse protection (they do nothing about it) is becomming communist in a sense. It's not government based, but still government approved and result is the same.

Well, first years it also took them to migrate to Openoffice, Thunderbird, Firefox. And train users on this new environment. This phase was done 1 year ago and now they entered the final stage, OS change.

It reminds me of Matrix quote: Because you have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong...

Smart decision. I stopped here: This switch is easy because not only is OpenOffice.org superior software in every respect, it's also feature-compatible with Microsoft Office

How can you compare silverlight to amarok? You don't need amarok to play your music, but you need windows to see silverlight website. And yes, it's MS fault you can't. It's good for them.

It was EPIC failure itself, but still managed to kill Aplha and PA-RISC only with fear.

Yes, ffs, how can they put pop music under rock. But seriously, it's so much stuff missing it's useless unless. Searching dissection gives me some black rappers (or at least that is what they look like), Cactus search retunrs some gay looking guys and Uriah Heep returns nothing - which is good considering previous hits. Useless, if you dont' listen to Kelly Family.