Why not write in Qt for Windows? It's certainly pleasant to work with, and you get Linux and OSX ports basically for free.

Qt for Windows builds with mingw, so YES it is possible to build Windows desktop apps for free.

"Rotational media is only going to stick around because it's CHEAP."

Is there any other reason for technology to stick around when it competes with other technology?

"They value ENERGY EFFICIENCY over everything."

Is that why most laptops have fans to conduct away the heat energy that they are wasting?

The Internet is burning down market models all over the world

You can't pass judgement on the new models, until the smoke and ash from the old ones is gone.

You can download the samba source package in a few seconds for free, it's jam-packed with all the info you could ever need.

If you want better than that, you'd better have a checkbook and some money in your account.

And you don't think this can be tracked?

With IPv6 autoconf, you can just plug your computers into your network and you don't have to configure them at all. Isn't that how a home network is supposed to work?

If those routers are crossing state lines then it's well established that the federal government can require that they are all painted green.

Don't we have, like, computers, that do that kind of thing?