What Microsoft does not allow is *DUAL BOOT* machines. This effectively removes a huge amount of the potential Linux market.

If it is as you describe, can't Sony get the same result by releasing only the SFC code, while not releasing the Linux kernel modifications? It would seem that would remove the ability for the SFC to sue, thus making this scheme work with a lot less effort than writing a BusyBox replacement.

If that is what Sony wants, then can't they just release the BusyBox source code? That would be a lot easier than replacing it, and would serve equally well as a way to make them unable to sue.

I have a Honda Fit. The gas tank is under the front seat. Quite nice actually because the rear floor is completely flat and you can raise the rear seats and get a large and square storage area.

You can't open the emergency exits while the plane is pressurized.

the floors in tension would quickly crack under their own weight

The animation clearly shows the robot adding beams over the windows and some kind of beam + flat pan objects that completely cover the ceilings before putting concrete atop them.

Shouldn't they merge with Duracell now?

"apple" does not have an S in it. Leet misspelling would be "@pple" or something like that.

The belief that the $ means "money" is wrong. It is rather a humorous misspelling of a word with an S in it. It serves the purpose of distinguishing it from many other uses of MS (in particular MS is the stock symbol for Morgan Stanley), and to prevent the text from being read out loud as "miss". So sorry it insults your beloved company that it looks like it is implying that they are 50% concerned with money, when you know that everything Microsoft does is 100% altruistic!

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Distinguishing M$ from MS (which means Mississippi, Multiple Sclerosis, and is the stock symbol for Morgan Stanley, and a dozen other uses that way predate the formation of Microsoft) seems pretty reasonable. It also reads better because you are forced to pronounce it as either "Microsoft" or at least "m-soft", rather than "miss". And as pointed out it looks like the string variables in the Basic that was Bill Gate's original claim to fame.

The people who are horrified that this implies that their beloved company is somehow related to *money* (really, they don't use money?) is pretty funny however. You are free to call open source software O$$ if it makes you feel better. But really you should get over it.

The CDDL has some on-purpose incompatability with the GPL so that CDDL code cannot be used by a GPL project. I don't want that.

Though I may be wrong about that, can anybody confirm? This may have been FUD to prevent usage of the CDDL.