I used to think that too. However, it's clear to me that you haven't been listening to BBC Radion 5Live at any point in the past month since they have been advertising Fighting Talk's Big Day Out pretty much constantly. Since this is not a free event to attend and is actually organised by the BBC, not just broadcast by them then I say yes, they certainly are selling something.

There are plenty more examples, it's just that this one is currently getting on my nerves the most.

Indeed. Orient is a noun, orientate is a verb. This is why, among other things, there are orientation sessions but never oriention sessions.

Right, but that's rather the point, isn't it? I mean if Apple block the use of the app, but not the access to the web site then only they are losing out, and if users who would normally use the app decide to use the web site instead then they might not go back to using the app when/if Apple permits it again. ISTM that there's 2 ways a user can do the same thing, one way might get Apple some cash and the other way certainly won't. They've blocked the former. Have I misunderstood?

What's to stop an iP* user going directly to the dropbox website anyway?

I think he's referring to SlashBI.

The last bastion of independent analysis, the seeker of truth and the purveyor of equanimity.

Oh wait, I'm thinking of someone else.

Really, if you do everything which Gartner advises you not to, you won't go far wrong.

Yeah, what's with the news these days? All we ever hear about is one humanitarian cell-phone drop after another.

You would think so, wouldn't you?

Perhaps your definition of "half" is very different from everyone else's.

Really? Perhaps you can explain precisely what the director in charge of this service is doing to earn their salary?

If you believe the stats which are constantly flung at us, maybe 90% of adults have a mobile phone. Certainly, if I were concerned about the reliability of a fibre link to the premises for phone calls I would be using mobile as a backup, not copper.

No. No, it really isn't.

Point of information: it also applies to things said within the House of Lords as well. In fact to anything said within the chambers of the Houses of Parliament by members of those houses (hence the term).

stry_cat sounds highly principled and I for one applaud him for it. It's not an easy step to take but it certainly can be the right one. If I were stry_cat I would look to get the new job sorted before quitting the old one, of course. Hopefully that's what they're doing.

As to the question of where to look, why not start with the big players? RedHat, Canonical, IBM, Google all (clearly) make serious use of open source technologies. Outside of pure IT there are plenty of others who do the same: Amazon, eBay, CERN, NASA, etc.

If you have a skill in a particular area (a language, an application, a protocol), most of those will have their own job board or similar and you probably know already where to look for that. Good luck in the search.