You're so full of shit. Libre is a superset of gratis when using those terms as FSF/OSI do to describe 'free' software. I'm a real Linux/Unix user, and I use Ubuntu for most of my needs. It's a good OS.

Canonical has every right to do what they're doing. If you don't like it, then go to another OS, fine. But don't compare them to Novell and CERTAINLY not Oracle! The OS is still libre-gratis-free, if it's in their main/universe repos. Don't FUD.

That's EXACTLY why they'd piss on him.

The lamestream media is angry that someone is uncovering the truth about our government.

This is another sad attempt at users having rights over their own content as they see fit.

DRM is not evil. Some of its uses are pretty shitty when looked at from the perspective of historical use (free access to recording -> Per-use viewing fees). But if I can set up a way to manage digital content along with expirations, permissions, etc., then that would be great.

The problem is that we geeks theorize quite accurately that DRM for media is pretty much useless. Once the content is unlocked, it can be copied, period.

That's less than 2 million miles, or .05 AU from the sun.

Quite toasty.

I do not know where you are from, but San Antonio is getting data centers left and right because our energy bill is about $0.06 / KW-hr. Not too bad... and I don't know if it's regulated or not.

BTW, this argument of "Providers competing over the same wire" is exactly what many people argue for in terms of Internet connectivity. Do you think having many ISPs compete on the same pipes would be a bad thing?

[citation needed]

I think it's a cycle, if your assertion even holds. I could theorize that, being more popular, more tools and features were put on top of MySQL to make it more friendly.

When I read this, I could truly picture a politician saying it.

I'm going to lay down now.

The best way to put it.

Random fact, crazy-fascinating but purely-speculative question: Your last sentence shows you'd be good at writing Slashdot summary endings.

Most banks in the United States are running some combination of Cobol and Java for the bulk of their back end/front end, respectively.

Granted, but these tools are more specific to open source. Many companies don't use IRC/Git/Trac-Bzr-Bigzilla/etc. in their corporate environment. Especially if you're not a programmer by title *cough ME cough* then you have a hard time acquiring the overpriced POS tools the company uses, but are not allowed to get what you want.

tl;dr The tools presented are largely open source.

And as many have stated, it's great he's showing them this, because no, most programmers aren't aware of just how useful these tools are in college.

Now I get +1 troll. I wouldn't have modded you down, but I certainly, absolutely disagree with your proposition.

That's like saying, "If Nazi Germany had just loved Jews, it would have been great!". When you take away what defines someone or something, can you really even compare the outcomes by calling them the same thing?

Anywho. I'm clearly drunk right now. If it's not clear.... it is now.

Also, less allegory would have been had about the torture of faceless, godless enemies, and the realization that they're just the same as us, etc. etc.

It would have been a totally different show, and for the millions who enjoyed the show thoroughly (especially when discounting the ending), it would therefore have been worse.

You get +1 troll.

UPvote, I noticed this as well.

After all the hubbub, they put their fiber network in their own back yard. Real surprising, guys.