You misunderstand his point. He is talking about people who are too risk-averse to allow their employees to try anything too radical or creative. Not that he is saying to weed out anyone but yes-men.

They do. It's called "trollbait" and all of the "smart" people who are so quick to correct it fall for it every time.

Yes. Putting something under the GPL does not relinquish your rights to that code.

Same here. Too many people extrapolate their own subjective experiences in using different languages as if they were a universally shared thing. Hell I know plenty of Python and Ruby programmers who find Java to be far less productive in their work.

And yet your anecdote doesn't really answer my question. If Java was so fast why do all the high performance libraries for things like multimedia not use it? Even the multimedia classes in Java's own stabdard library use native code libraries under the covers because pure Java would be too slow.

I write multithreaded C++ code with Qt all the time. It is absolutely trivial. What is supposed to be tricky?

That's funny since those contrived benchmarks are the only ones Java can actually win. Usually because the C++ code is also set to no optimizations. If this were really true why are all the high-performance multimedia, mathematics, etc. libraries all still written in C, C++ or Fortran? That's because Java is still magnitudes slower.

That was meant to bs Islam not Uam.

Fallacious argument. This is like saying "Look at all the people converting to Uam and not changing to another religion afterward".

Why would the success of this have anything to do with the receiver getting a cut? Why would the sender care whether you got part of the money or not?

Because they say so?

I don't idolize him, but it's still plain wrong to say he was a conservative when he was a major player of the progressive movement.

The GP must have read some alternate version of history when Teddy was an outspoken progressive.

Teddy Roosevelt was a conservative? You're joking, right? Did you hear that from Rush Limbaugh or Fox News? You do know that the Bull Moose Party that he founded was a progressive party, right? Teddy Roosevelt is well known as being a leader in the progressive movement of the early 20th century. To call him a conservative is an absolute joke.

Yes, I read that. So what? I only chose to respond to the incorrect part.