I don't see how a merger between FSF and OSI would pose a problem. The Open Source Definition published by Open Source Initiative is worded nearly identically to the Debian Free Software Guidelines on which it was based, and each of the OSD's conditions maps to one of the FSF's four freedoms.

I agree. But given how some countries appear not to recognize a dedication of a work to the public domain as irrevocable, charters are the best we have.

That's called donating copyright in a program to a not-for-profit foundation that has the free software paradigm written into its charter. Examples of such foundations include Free Software Foundation, Apache Software Foundation, and KDE Free Qt Foundation.

Ellison can't steal it, but if this comment is to be trusted, you already signed it away.

Provided both your web host and the web applications you're running support PostgreSQL. Not everybody has the money to move up to a VPS and the time to rewrite all of a large web application's queries for PostgreSQL on a whim.

But it is possible for the copyright owner to commit a user trust violation by providing new versions of a work only under much harsher terms.

What is the power of a major party voter, third party voter, or non-voter over an issue on which the two major parties agree?

With enough campaign contributions from Bing's parent company, the government might even spin it as a way to keep the American people from getting, shall I say, "Scroogled".

Not if the Supreme Court disagrees with you that a particular statute is unconstitutional.

The solution that handles games is not to try to make everything run in the HTML document viewer. Instead, make a native application for Windows, a native application for OS X, a native application for GNU/Linux, a native application for Android, a native application for iOS, and a native application for Windows Phone 8.

How to get iPhone 5s (fivez, not five ess):
1. Buy iPhone 5 for self
2. Buy iPhone 5 for spouse
3. Activate both on a single family plan

If one wants to become no longer a "lazy piece[] of shit", then what tool do you recommend for creating HTML5 animations that's comparable in capability to Flash CS series?

When it comes to Android phones, "old and obsolete" is very, very likely to be not only still in use but still sold by the carrier. The last time I checked a couple months ago, prepaid carriers were still selling Android 2.x phones.

The end user doesn't care whether a product is made by a big company or by an individual. In fact, judging by the way game consoles have sold for the past five generations, I think the end user prefers a product by a big company.

If HTML5 is so much better than Flash, then why haven't things like Badgers or French Erotic Film been ported yet?

A point-to-point microwave link gives the subscriber a low-latency connection to the cell tower at the other end of that link, but the other player is still on the other side of the Internet from the tower. You'd end up just as many hops away from the other player as you'd be with cable or DSL.