I'm not sure how it's even legal. Did the Samba team get all the contributors permission before switching to GPL 3? If they had switched to a new license all together I'm certain that legally they would have had to do that. Since the GPL 3 contains new requirements I don't see why it's not being treated as a new license. If I had contributed to Samba I would personally be very upset by the license change.

It's really unfortunate. FSF does a lot of good things and Stallman is no doubt brilliant. But Stallman is also an ideologue and he ultimately controls the licenses. Many people here and elsewhere have the opinion that v3 goes too far but he's been unwilling to listen to the concerns. The real way to deal with patent abuse is through the courts and congress.

Count me in the "no floating headers" bandwagon.

I don't get why everyone is clamoring for "actual goals". I fear any "goal" is what's going to end up ruining it. Make your own goal. I run a server with a few people and our goal is building every awesome monument we can think of. That and redstone computers to control automated minecrart tracks.

There are plenty of reasons to use encryption but the Chinese government just isn't one of them for me. If I view something they don't like, what exactly are they going to do? I suppose they could block my access but it's not like I would get thrown in a Chinese prison.

I have a lot more to worry about from identity thieves, scams and heck, my own government.

Spoken like a true pointy-haired boss who's never coded a day in his life.

I see some MS-Bot came and marked you troll. But you're absolutely right. The commercials make no sense at all. Wouldn't a mobile device maker (and the carriers that carry it) want you to use the phone more?

Hey guys we have this great phone that you won't use like all the other phones out there!

I have files on floppies that are probably from 1990 (and possibly older) but since I don't even have a floppy drive anymore it's obvious those aren't used.

My .bashrc and .vimrc I created in '99 and I still make sure to copy those around whenever I install a new system.

Are we implying that there are a significant number of slashdotters that are female/getting enough action to require it? /joking

What I find funny is that on Slashdot that GWB is pretty much universally disdained for being blinded by principle but plenty of RMS fans applaud him for it.

I respect RMS for creating the GPL but I do not respect his belief that he's right and everyone else who had different ideas about open source or free software is wrong.

You may not respect Miguel for the work he's done with Mono but he's not the only one who has problems with RMS. Even Linus has indicated that he's not a fan of RMS's style. I'm sure we can all find plenty of respect for Linus.

Well as long as ChromeOS is vaporware we can speculate that Google is going to figure out a way to finally run those Win32 apps natively on their own OS. (Think Wine but with a massive ton of resources behind it, or maybe an embedded VM to run the apps ... though I'm sure that would have more licensing hurdles)

Honestly if they did I can't decide if it would be a good or a bad thing.

Please!

Absolutely loved those games and I would love to mix it up on XvT on my FiOS connection after playing it on dial-up back in the day

I agree. If you look at my posts above I had high hopes for evolution-mapi but it crashes on login :(

However I will say that using VirtualBox in seamless mode isn't too bad. Outlook sits on my desktop like any other app. I can take that pain more than I can take the pain of developing on Windows.

Actually using KVPNC I've had no issues with Cisco VPN connections.

I find it sad that Exchange support is still considered a "specialized need" :). Personally I wish Mozilla would add it to Thunderbird. T-bird is a much better mail client anyway. (IMHO)

That's weird. My Nvidia drivers upgraded with no problem.