And mentality like this is going to lead humans to their doom. Thanks for having this superiority complex and your need to be to best/top/greatest etc what ever else you may want to put it. Idiot.

So you think its really takes 10-20 years to recover their initial R&D. And its not like pharma companies don't slightly change the drug formula and extend the patent ? Greed is everywhere. While I am not saying that India doesnt need to honor the patent, I am saying balance is required. We should realize that compulsory licensing approval process is still under the purview of the WTO and other commercial bodies. Rocky.

Mod the above comment up. Sometimes its important to become a dictator and face the criticism for the sake of removing bureaucracy and making progress and reforms and sometimes we need to remove the dictator and create a bureaucratic system so that views of one dont interfere with the way of living of others. In this case the choice to shutdown was justified but the way wasn't. and more often then not, its this highhanded approach that I see being followed.

right here.

Death is inevitable, everyone has to die and no matter how hard we try, we cant prevent all deaths. Some deaths are natural and some not, without death, the cycle of live and diversity will be disrupted. The important part we should learn from these deaths is where we made mistakes and never repeat them again. If we are able to do that then their death is not in vain.

I think this comment is racist.

Now taking it a little further, a small amount of plaque in your arteries can take you out :)

Emacs is a great OS and it includes a browser too :)

OTOH, RMS would gladly be part of the "Westboro folks" to prove they have the right to picket in front of his funeral.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/10/stallman_glad_jobs_gone/

lkamlkasc

Dear Sir, I am not sure you have understood the point behind RMS' argument. Over the years, Jobs went from being the rebel against the big brother to become to new big brother with sugar coating and lot of fluff. Many people like those fluff and I also see that his designs also had value for a vast majority of them, people who like things to work. But to me the point is simple, I like to do things my way, just as he wanted to do, I want my freedom. His clout and person changed a lot a people into voluntarily giving away that freedom and accepting his view as the whole truth and nothing but the truth. >The fact is, apart from the a few geeks, people in the real world really don't care about his views or what he is trying to promote. I don't care if if anybody cares or not, but that doesn't take away his right to be part of the world and have his freedom.

I am disappointed to report that, even though I feel this is a bad business move, Netflix stock has been up by $4.31 ( 2.8% ). Looks like stock holders and investors lack common sense now a days.

I know this thread is taking about C, but I agree to this comment on Java. I see that many framework in Java being unnecessarily deployed in java projects which doesn't solve the problem while compounding the complexity.