From the company that brought you Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, Me, XP, Vista and then 8.

Yes, that company.

I remember excellent four player gaming sessions on the couch with Warhawk ... I miss it sometimes.

Voice controls in Sing Star are quite smooth but still delayed a fraction of a second. I wouldn't put it past either company to have excellent voice control this generation. I still don't want people talking to the TV to change channels.

And hackable ... didn't Panasonic have trouble with their Skype TVs having the cameras hacked remotely?

Its called a loss leader ... its a common and very workable technique in marketing, and more so when you're a hardware company who knows how to whittle down production costs with time.

Reading skills on Slashdot? You have got to be kidding!

The AC put it well -- Word is not the tool for this. Everyone knows this (well, except you obviously).

Pay for Google Apps and get some serious privacy then -- the free service has to generate income somehow.

Can I turn off how terribly it reformats huge documents when you make minor changes?

Word is *not* a large document publishing package.

HTML5 has been the next Java since WebOS ... a slow but portable app environment that's best replaced with native code when possible but still functional.

And yet I don't see this failure everywhere that you imply in your original comment.

Given that many OSI projects aren't failing and are in fact very successful and well-regarded in general, I'd say it has nothing to do with the model at all.

That is to say, unless you can show that OSI projects fail more frequently than commercial software projects, you have no point at all. Bear in mind that this must include *all* commercial software projects, which is very hard because unlike FOSS, those aren't necessarily public.

You do realize MariaDB *is* MySQL for all intents and purposes, right?

This is a lot like upgrading from Debian to Ubuntu (except that Debian is not controlled by a multi-national corp).

Although I might add, we programmers love it when requests come attached to donations rather than solo.

Bribery really does work.

Obviously you're not a programmer. If you are, you're not a very good one.

Using proprietary software and hoping someone else fixes your problems is like playing Russian roulette. It might seem like a good idea at the time, but it ends badly.

What on earth do you think you're talking about? And how do you think it made sense?