That's mine. This is what i get when I try a new browser and forget to log in before posting. :D

Pretty much, yeah.

I pop over to see what's going on the front page once in a while, but only when I want to see what's going on on FM (FreeCode now?)... Slashdot cross-posting to Facebook pretty-much sealed that vat shut, I think. <shrug>

I was going to comment to this article and say pretty-much what you just did.

It's one thing to be confident in what you do. That's fine. It's quite another thing to be cocky to a fault, and that's where Christoforo is.

If you think about it, we all have "bad days", but we don't have that many. Christoforo still isn't fully convinced that he did anything wrong, and that's where his problem lies. He has to realize that people need to be handled with respect, even if they are in the wrong. There is no justification for berating anyone, no matter what connections either side may have. From what I've read of the email thread, I think Christoforo was in the wrong from early on. Instead of realizing his mistake and addressing the real problem (timing of delivery of a product that was already paid for), he let his ego get in the way and it only made matters worse.

Instead of issuing an apology and learning a lesson, he still seems belligerent over the matter. He has a lot of growing up to do.

OS limitations.

I think the closest we have seen in the 20+ years I've been using and playing with computers is when certain Linux distributions were released to overlay MS Windows. Windows didn't like it much and there was some tinkering to be done to account for that, but it was doable then. Why it hasn't persisted into something more mainstream could be due to Corporate Greed, where companies like Microsoft want their OS to dominate uber alles...

tl;dr: Can it be done? Yes. Has it been done? Yes. Do all OSs like it? No.

I've sent an invite for you. Let me know if you have any problems with it. :)

I've added you, GeckoFood, and Shadow Wrought to my circle. Look for my email indicating that I've added you. :)

End Users have a nasty tendency to judge an operating system by its applications, else they would have given serious consideration to other OSs that have come and gone over the years. Since they do, why can't I?

You are truly one of the Lucky Ones. I've seen systems that (literally) were infected out of the box.