In my experience at least you need fewer admins per server with Unix than with Windows. Largely because it is easier to script and automate stuff and to some extent because those Unix admins with 20% higher pay rates actually know more about computers and can therefore fix problems faster than the corresponding Windows admins.

So you can't say it is more expensive to admin Unix than Windows just because of higher wages.

12GB/month is ~38.8 Kb/s, so you could argue that they raise the speed once you've reached their 'unlimited' limit :)

Exactly what I was wondering, is Czech Republic leaving WTO?

And Linux distributions condense it into similar formats:
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2012

Well considering how many features like WinFS they have promised for every Windows version and then axed them I wouldn't count on any of those features to actually make it into the product.

Didn't fail at all on a PDF with typed text for me. Did you actually try it?

I bet they don't actually use OCR on a PDF with typed text as they can just extract it from the PDF, they probably use that on images inside PDFs though.

I suspect it's not the same people fixing stuff like better/more hardware drivers and drawing new graphical themes. But perhaps you would rather that those with graphical talent didn't get involved at all?

Kdevelop 4 has vi editing mode (as does the other KDE text editors, KATE & KWrite)

But don't forget you will need to buy some Tac-2 joysticks and build converters for those.

For small businesses that don't have a full time sysadmin there's also risks running your own. It might fail and take long time to fix for example. And it might go for long times without security patches.

I suppose both those things are true for larger places as well with sysadmins overloaded with work :(

You should really read up on data structures, using a hash map which I guess most DNS-servers use is a LOT faster than searching through a hosts file.

But in South Africa (which is one of the countries this cable goes to) the figure was 60% Urban population in 2007. Source: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/southafrica_statistics.html

If you want only a few versions with long support to evaluate it might be better to stick to for example Ubuntu 6.06 LTS & Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Then you wouldn't have to evaluate a new version every six months.

But sure, it won't beat the ~10 year support period of Windows XP :)

I hope they at least mean that everyone should have at least 2Mb/s upload speed as well. At least here in Sweden there's a lot of people on ADSL that only have 1Mb/s upload.

Yes, I'm disputing that. You can also have a look at the latest Worldwide Press Freedom Index:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_Press_Freedom_Index#Worldwide_Press_Freedom_Index

1 Iceland
1 Luxembourg
1 Norway
4 Estonia
4 Finland
4 Republic of Ireland
7 Belgium
7 Latvia
7 New Zealand
7 Slovakia
7 Sweden
7 Switzerland
13 Canada
14 Austria
14 Denmark
16 Czech Republic
16 Lithuania
16 Netherlands
16 Portugal
20 Germany
snip...
38 United States

Perhaps you notice that the top of that list is quite dominated by European countries?