Real slashdotters remove the processor and RAM.

Forgot source (ha!), sorry:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/nonfree-games.html

He's addressed this before:

Free software is a matter of freedom, not price. A free game need not be gratis. It is feasible to develop free games commercially, while respecting your freedom to change the software you use. Since the art in the game is not software, it does not need to be free. There is in fact free game software developed by companies, as well as free games developed noncommercially by volunteers. Crowdfunding development will only get easier.

As long as the source code is free, he doesn't seem to object to keeping digital assets proprietary.

He didn't "win" against Apple or anyone else. They've settled rather than going to court.

Your kind is NOT wanted here.

The average Slashdot summary makes this very, very evident.

I tagged this as "youdont" to be a smartass, but the question deserves a more serious answer. I'm only a casual Trek fan (meaning I enjoy the movies and will watch TNG if I run into it while channel-surfing), but really, you may be overthinking the issue. Introducing someone to one of your passions is not more difficult just because the subject in question is Star Trek, anymore than it would if we were talking about, say, antiquing.

My wife has gotten me into antiquing/DIY/restoration basically by osmosis, just by watching her favorite HGTV/TLC shows while I'm hanging out in the family room. She never forced it beyond saying "I think you might like this show, wanna watch an ep?", the secret being that if I had refused, she wouldn't have pushed it. Now we regularly go shopping for vintage furniture/appliances to restore, which is fun merging of her design skills and my tech ones. Likewise, when I want her to check out something I enjoy, I will offer it up without expecting any more commitment than "sure, let's watch a bit and see how I like it".

So the movies would be your best bet. My personal favorite is First Contact, but you might be more successful with the Abrams reboot, which could provide an easy lead into the original films because of Nimoy's presence.

Just remember, if they aren't into it, let it go. Your passions remain just as enjoyable even if your friends and loved ones don't share them.

...said the AC ;)

I like the "Triumph of the Nerds" version better:

"The most dangerous man in Silicon Valley sits in an office in this building. People love him and hate him. Often at the same time. For ten years by sheer force of will he made the personal computer industry follow his direction. With this guy we're not talking about someone driven by the profit motive in a desire for an opulent retirement at the age of forty, no we're talking holy war we're talking rivers of blood and fields of dead martyrs to the cause of greater computing. We're talking about a guy who sees the personal computer as his tool for changing the world. We're talking about Steve Jobs."

In keeping with their concept of "our browser as your OS", we now have "our search engine as your file manager". No, thanks.

It's the world's smallest violin, playing just for... DAMMIT, PAYPAL!

Only 10 minutes? Man, I wanna go to your theater!

Alright, the Earth goes through periods of climate upheaval. Fine.

Now, knowing that, why on Earth would we NOT want to minimize our own artificial contributions to the process? Wouldn't it be in our best interest to limit our hand in climate change? If global warming is a natural phenomenon, then we may be in for hundreds to thousands of years of progressive warming. In the interest of helping our species survive, wouldn't we want to manage our resources intelligently in order to better survive what you consider an inevitable natural process?

COMPETE with Diaspora? Give me a break. Diaspora is alpha software that requires users to run their own web server. It's a fucking great concept that will nonetheless never catch on with a large enough audience to ever matter to anyone but its users.

The same could be said about desktop Linux, but Linux has found plenty of life in other markets. Until Diaspora finds that niche, there's no "competition" to speak of.

I don't know. Over the course of several days, Dave tried to very politely extract information from an increasingly unhelpful Christophoro. In the end, he triggered the Streissand-bomb. I'm willing to forgive a little bit of textual trollface, after what Christophoro pulled. Plus, Christophoro's further antics show he learned nothing, and would have carried on had it not been for the massive backlash from some very important people in the industry.