What app did you develop?

The fact that I can't use Sun's software how I want is a problem with GPL how?

D3D is better than OpenGL how? OpenGL supports all features that Direct 3D does.

I see no proof that Windows threads are any faster than Pthreads. Process forking obviously goes to Unix since it does light weight copy-on-write forks.

The toolsets are already far superior on Linux. And your mom is fat. ;-)

DX10 is a comparable API to OpenGL
C# is harder to work with than Python (Java is great and all, but there are many other languages. And before you say it, yes I've heard of IronPython, ever heard of Mono?)
You are probably right on that last one. They all keep how shit works on the game consoles so close to their chest that it makes it pretty hard for me to know.

Even if they develop a highly parallel programming language, that doesn't mean that everybody who can program C# will be able to use it. Hell, if you want a functional, cross-platform, highly scalable, fault tolerant, naturally paralellizable+clusterable programming language that is available now for free just use Erlang (like everybody else with a clue). Its already written. And yes you can run it on your HPC clusters if you want, but why would you want to?

Honestly, why would anyone want to roll-out something like this on Windows. A lot of extra expense for little practical value.

Yeah, but while you guys were talking about that, I trademarked Subcasting (TM).

Yes, because people fighting for software which can be used however one sees fit is totally a problem. Making software work "for you" not "despite you" is totally a problem.

The problem definitely isn't with a piece of useful proprietary software becoming so large and all engulfing that no competition can usefully coexist. Thereby, creating a stagnant monocultured environment with a money swollen corporation killing all forms of competition using underhanded tactics because it has the power to do so. No, that totally isn't characteristic of any kind of forced servitude.

You know slaves had an opportunity to runaway also. But the environment they were in made doing so suicidal.

Stallman has excellent ethical direction. Unfortunately, there is a large proportion of "software houses" that don't (ignoring the fact that open source does not dictate how you sell your dev time). But the ethical and financial benefits of delegating the direction of a software product to the entire human community is huge.

I speak from my semi-limited experience having delegated some of my (paid) time to a couple of F/OSS projects. Specifically, I benefit from getting a nice pre-existing codebase for nothing (inkscape/gphoto2). The community benefits because they got my changes for free. Additionally, I authored a widget for wxPython, posting it to their wiki asking for some help to reach the stated goals. It was useful to enough people that eventually my little widget was flexibly extended to the point of encompassing all my goals and then many more. A culture of cooperative development had pushed my meager contribution into something many people wanted and could use. This was the ultimate testament, to me, of the efficacy of free software.