I think OpenOffice is under the ASF. Oracle is no longer involved is my understanding.

It is not backward, however, I should have said it goes in both directions, especially during an election year. They are both trying to put on a show for voters that the other party is bad.

If most Republicans were against it, then most Democrats would have been for it. Define *it* to be almost anything.

As I noted at the bottom, I use zsh. You really should try it.

I have used both a lot. gmake can be a pain in differences between versions when the Makefiles become complex, especially prior to 3.81. With BSD make, I can do 'make -V VARIABLE' to print what the calculated value. That is not to say it is blissful. They are different advantages and disadvantages. However, you should be using something like cmake where you do not have to care about the underlying make. They thing that really annoys me between the two is they are the opposite with regards to $.

You had implied that using older, stable tools was worse than using newer tools.

Regarding file size, I guess it depends upon a few factors since there are examples where MacOS binaries produced by Clang are smaller than gcc but not for Linux.

That still confuses me. Is the KDE version that far behind on FreeBSD as compared to Linux? I can only install v4.7.3 on FreeBSD. Is that old? If you talk about shells and other command-line tools, then you are talking about the way our grandparents used systems.

What pain? Installing a few applications is painful? What do you lack with FreeBSD's utilities? tcsh is pretty decent for a shell. cp even has the same '-a' option as cp in fileutils, or is fileutils too primitive? gmake and make are different, yet make is not primitive. Anything related to the desktop has to be installed by both Linux and FreeBSD, so that is not a valid argument. gcc is almost 25 years old. Chemisor, please answer why you are using something so old when Clang is available.

It is bad to be compatible?!? Are you saying different systems need to be incompatible else you would not use them?

I like how you said, "Well, they can keep their stability; instead of installing Linux over BSD". You seem to be implying that Linux is unstable.

Personally, I always install zsh on any system I use even if the system has bash.

Or are they GPS satellites "equipped with nuclear missiles and a laser cannon"?

I used to work in the same building as these people. I even worked with a couple of them on different products.

While I have not used/seen their products, they may offer something useful.

http://www.gh-accessibility.com/

I wonder if opposites attract?

The telecommunication companies will never do that. They make much more revenue on fixed monthly fees. They love people that barely use their service yet pay for broadband via monthly fees. After what happened with landlines, fees based on usage were banned. Usage-based cell phone service scares them.

The only possibilities they may attempt is to charge extra per gigabyte over the cap or a "Super Duper We Love Your Money" unlimited plan. Both are similar to many cell phone plans.