... since carriers love Skype so very much due to its ability to shift their revenue from the extremely profitable voice calls to the much less profitable data transmission channels, and since nobody will believe Microsoft should they claim not to have any plans to integrate Skype's technology in WP7. This is irrespective of whether WP7 has technical merit or not. Carriers make or break a mobile OS - they can simply refuse to subsidize phones running an unwanted OS thus forcing it out of the market.

The VERSION file in mine says 1.0.10. The About box in my client says 1.0.10. You might have stale files laying around - I recommend you close the Dropbox daemon, delete (or safer yet, rename) ~/.dropbox-dist, start the Dropbox daemon again and let it redownload.

The current Dropbox version for Linux is indeed 1.0.10. What you're downloading there is nautilus-dropbox, the Nautilus integration package. The actual Dropbox daemon is proprietary, it will be downloaded into ~/.dropbox-dist the first time you start it.

BS. It probably just formats it using exFAT if it's not formatted already, or when the user formats it. It's not possible to permanently make a card unreadable on other systems - reformatting and/or repartitioning the card will do the trick. Even if that were possible, this would be too blatant a bug to have slipped through QA.

Sorry, my bad. I meant developer adoption rate.

Market share is an iffy thing - it's here one day, gone the next. Unfortunately the Symbian adoption is not only slowing, it's negative (I say unfortunately because you can pry my beloved E72 out of my clammy, dead fingers.) Hopefully Nokia will be able to turn it around.

The linking issue is tangential - the real issue is the notion of a derivative work, linking is just an instance of that.

It can help you avoid SQL Server. Shoehorning SQL Server support into common web apps is... frustrating, to say the least, and SQL Server has a habit of sucking you into an ever-growing cost spiral.

Because sometimes you're forced to use a Windows server platform yet at the same time are under budget constraints and can't afford Microsoft's licensing models.

PayPal does offer loans. E.g.: PayPal Buyer Credit.