Not really. It's great for tyrants though.

I am indifferent to the privatization of education. Public schools are a disgrace even in affluent suburbs. Anything that improves the quality of the output could not hurt. Even something that simply re-arranges the chairs is not likely to do any harm.

> Where does this idiocy about 'free software' and 'licenses' come from? Tribal thinking. Pseudo religious philosophies.

No. It comes from copyright law and personal experience.

This stuff doesn't form in a vacuum. The fact that you can't be bothered to read or acknowledge the relevant background material doesn't make you smarter than anyone.

Also, ALL software suffers from the same engineering challenges. It's just more visible when the process is democratic and transparent.

That's more background material that you are too lazy to read, acknowledge, or understand.

> Nothing. The Open Source movement is supposed to be about freedom, remember? Why are you so keen to limit it?

Anarchy is not liberty. Anarchy just leads to despotism and leaves the guy with the biggest gun in charge.

It's more accurate to state that practical considerations make enforcement actions against your own personal usage unlikely. If you are quietly using someone's stuff at home, no one is going to know you are "stealing" from them.

The minute you start re-distributing stuff, you become visible. Any interested party can examine what you are doing and determine if you are "stealing" from them.

Yup. I have been calling the BSD license "glorified public domain" for years.

This really does come off like some kid with no experience thinking that he re-invented the wheel. "Do what you want" licenses already exist. There's also a reason that copyleft exists and it's not just to "stick it to the man".

That guy already tried the "do what you want" approach and got burned. His contributors screamed bloody murder when some commercial entity exploited their work.

It doesn't matter if it's "usual" or not. Absurdly wasteful is still absurdly wasteful. PC developers and Microsoft are just lazy and wasteful because they think that they can get away with it.

At least the likes of EA has some excuse. Their releases usually include significant multi-media assets. That sort of stuff takes up a lot of space regardless of what the context is.

Microsoft has the rest of the small computing industry held hostage making 3rd party products. However, that is not something that directly relates to how bloated and wasteful Windows is once it is installed on your hard drive.

The "need" for msoffice is and always has been grossly overblown.

So is the rest of your FUD.

There's no need to be sick.

Just upgrade your storage. Add another 32G or 64G to it.

Buy it from Amazon or Walmart and you won't be losing anything. You tell them that the Samsung product is a pile of crap that ate itself. Your merchant will give you your money back without incident.

Non-problem solved.

Are you trying to be intentionally funny?

If not, I suggest re-reading my post SLOWLY this time.

pppppfffff!

My Archos 5 has 500GB of storage.

That doesn't make it a "serious" device.

Ultrabook schm-ultrabook. None of the jokers being held up as paragons here have yet to catch up to my Archos yet. All of your overhyped crap is lame.

Use VNC?

That's funny.

VNC is a pig even on a LAN.

Caching and compression with X is much more effective.

While X haters were busy repeating 20 year old arguments, the rest of the world caught up with Unix. Now if you gut remote desktop access, you will just be making Linux look like it's 20 years behind.

You've got to bake this stuff in. You can't just ignore it. There's really no way around it. Otherwise you end up with stuff like what Mac users are stuck with.

With my 80G phone, my collection will be everywhere I go regardless of how well I am connected to the grid. Besides just network performance and availability, I also never have to worry about roaming charges and bandwidth caps.

I could also attach a 128G or 256G thumb drive to my phone for added fun. Plus I can access anything. I don't have to be limited to what's in the Apple company store.

iTunes can't match what iTunes doesn't sell.