I live in a city with over 15 million people that looks like this:

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But our barbecues still look like this:

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You don't need higher tech. Cut the meat properly (The cuts used in the US just plain suck), make a nice fire using actual wood, preferably quebracho (very hard wood) and light it the traditional way (using no flammable fluids or other fire starters). Let it consume, and when it's mostly ashes, cook it slowly for several hours. Serve hot with nothing but salt.

You won't ever eat something more delicious.

Read again.

There is an organization that needs to purchase something, from now on THE COMPANY.
There is a person appointed by said organization to purchase the most cost-effective solution, from now on THE CTO
There is a salesman that offers his product, from now on THE SALESMAN.

In an honest situation, THE CTO chooses the best option for THE COMPANY based on the characteristics and price of the product offered by THE SALESMAN.
In a corrupt situation, THE SALESMAN pays THE CTO to select his product and not another one from the competition. THE COMPANY has lost money.

If we were talking about government, you would understand it's bribery.

Sure, routing only. Every service that is run on the web is predominantly run on Unix

I've seen it happened in front of my eyes. At some major companies. Not direct bribes, sure. But I've seen CTOs getting new high end laptops and desktops with thousands of dollars of software loaded into them, and CTOs getting a week-long trip to the other side of the world for some microsoft-sponsored event, at some 5-star resort. This is usually not paid by microsoft directly, of course, but by companies that sell microsoft products. This happens every fucking year.

A company that sold HP hardware had a really big customer: One of the biggest banks in the world. The regional CTO at this bank had a new laptop everytime I saw him, all provided by this company, for the purpose of testing new products, of course. He also traveled regularly, first class, 5 stars, to seminars and other kinds of events all sponsored by said company.

Of course, he swears by microsoft software running on HP hardware, and said bank runs nothing but that, even on areas where it costs significantly more than the competition. We are talking about thousands and thousands of computers and servers, many of them being renewed yearly.

Tell me that's not bribing.

Unix is actually very popular where security is a concern. Most of the internet runs on some variety of Unix.

Same in business.

But the reasons it's not even more widespread are:

a) Management and HR are clueless, and so they implement the wrong policies and hire the wrong people.
b) Microsoft spends a lot of money on getting people hooked on their technologies, including getting most universities to teach their crap, so many sysadmins are clueless regarding anything outside Microsoft.
c) CTOs get bribed. Those bribes determine what technology they buy. The FSF doesn't have much money to waste on bribes, but many corporations do.

Like the respect they showed for important monuments, art and ruins in Iraq ...

The US didn't have jurisdiction over Iraq either. Or over Pakistan, when they killed Osama.

It didn't seem to matter.

Since when does the US government respect any law, internal or international?

Hinged racks are really expensive ... just buy a conventional wall-mounted rack and mount it on regular hinges. It's nice to carve 10cm or so into the wall so that cables fit nicely when you close it. Front and back access without using much room. Another thing I've done when not much room is available is build a trap door in the wall where the wall-rack will be mounted. When you need to access the backside, you just go to the other room and pull out the trap door. If none of this is feasible, just mount the servers in rails. Without a hack like this, wall-mounted racks are just for switches and other devices with front connectors.

Yes, we did, and I'll just re-post what I post every time this bullshit comes up:

This is bullshit. It's counting by project, not by importance or size. I'm sure if we counted by lines of code, the GPL would still be #1.

What's happening is that we are seeing new "projects" being created at an alarming rate, most of this projects being wordpress plugins that do nothing important, collections of shitty javascript functions, and themes for various CMS, forums, etc.

Sure, it's full of kids that "just learned" the latest "cool" language (you know the type, Ruby, Python, etc) and just create some project that is either trivial, or is going nowhere past "we uploaded a readme and a roadmap to sourceforge". Half of sourceforge is dead projects.

The truth is that projects aren't jumping ships. No GPL projects are trying to change their license.

I could report "The earth is getting smaller and less important", but the truth is that the inflation of the universe doesn't change the size of the earth, just what percentage of the universe it represents.

I dislike Apple, quite a lot, but you have to be fair, Foxconn is an independent company, and certainly more closely associated with Intel than with Apple. It was Intel's huge contracts that made them as big as they are, and enabled them to get to other customers such as Apple.

Regardless, It's an industry wide issue. In order to compete in the real world, you have to manufacture in China, It's not just Apple doing it:

Here are more Foxconn customers:

        Acer Inc. (Taiwan)[36]
        Amazon.com (United States)[37]
        Apple Inc. (United States)[38]
        Cisco (United States)[39]
        Dell (United States)[40]
        Hewlett-Packard (United States)[41]
        Intel (United States)[42]
        Microsoft (United States)[43]
        Motorola Mobility (United States)[40]
        Nintendo (Japan)[44]
        Nokia (Finland)[38]
        Samsung Electronics (South Korea)[45]
        Sony (Japan)[46]
        Toshiba (Japan) [47]
        Vizio (United States)[48]

Truth is Foxconn manufactures reasonably good quality products (certainly way above average for China) and they do so incredibly cheap. That changed the industry, and it will continue to attract huge companies.

We are all responsible: The Chinese government is the main abuser of its citizens, and wants a bigger industry, so they'll allow Foxconn to do anything they want. Most corporations are big amoral entities, and so are most governments (I don't mean this as an insult, I'm not saying they are evil or good, I'm saying they are neutral, they'll do what it takes to bring in profit, regardless of the implications). The other involved party, and the only ethical one, are the customers, the general public, and they completely lack morals too. Most members of the general public, as well as most employees at any of this huge corporations, and most functionaries in any government are ethical human beings, capable of feeling empathy and understanding right from wrong. But as a whole, as entities, they behave according to a completely different set of rules, and ethics and empathy aren't in their instruction set. So it's up to the individual to change this situation.

If you are really pissed about it, stop working for them, stop voting for them, and stop buying from them. Complaining about it on the internet or pretending that any of this institutions, customers included, act as a whole will get you nowhere.