Then don't do anything stupid. This has nothing to do with Facebook or Google.

I don't break the law so I am all for it being used on everyone who does. Why aren't you?

At least one can expect people who are motivated by money to be rational. Unlike people who are motivated by an ideology (e.g., the FSF cult).

I don't see how libertarianism has anything to do with privacy. One does not have a right to privacy, just as one has no right to control what other person knows or thinks.

I also wonder how one could describe this web site as libertarian-leaning.

I wonder what this privacy enforcement is costing the German economy. The world will move on regarding privacy and data mining will eventually become ever more ubiquitous. If Germans are so eager to place themselves at a competitive disadvantage they'll find out that the next Facebook or Amazon will definitely not be invented there. Or, on the consumer side, people will get degraded experience or no service at all. In the same way that GEMA prevents Germans from having Pandora or Spotify now, if they make it impossible for Facebook or Google to operate, consumers will lose again.

I can hardly remember any "Apps" before the iPhone showed up. These things were used to be called "Computer programs." So App Store is indeed the invention of Apple.

Because this would be racist.

It would be nice if someone made a video of the Linux upgrade path as we've seen recently with Windows. Install Linux 1.0 -> ... -> Ubuntu 11.04 and show how applications continue working.

Please, take a class in economics.

It's the cost-benefit analysis. Silicone turned out to be cheaper than time/brains.

The goal is not to be perfect, but be better than average and hence pay less than before. If you are perfect, you pay much less, but that's ok.

You see, the FSF knows better. It can judge what strategy is best for a company in the blink of an eye. This is evident by the tremendous success it has been over the years: billions in revenue, multiple spin-offs, their funding for startups, the fact that GNU/Hurd made Windows obsolete in 1995, that Microsoft and Apple are bankrupt and their former employees now work at the FSF. Why won't you trust these guys?

Do you think that engineers and managers at Google are idiots? If releasing the code under an open-source license were such a good idea, they would already be doing it, without your pushing and bullying.

It's a scary world you live in. Here's a solution: don't use email.

Will airplanes also be powered by batteries? This guy says, no: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/08/laughlin_on_the.html

BTW, methodology is the study of methods.