We can vacuum ourselves, but don't want to. I can also grow my own vegetables, but I opt not to do so either.

I fail to see how it's an issue. You run a program that uploads data, and your issue is that it eats up your bandwidth? Seems like a non-issue to me!

This is because cultures were different.

Books required an investment to be physically printed, distributed and sold, which would tend to be out-of-reach for authors. But printing companies could do it and profit a lot from that. The problem with that scenario is that the author would make no profit, hence, nobody would write anything (not unless they were rich and had plenty of spare time, anyway). Hence, copyright made a lot of sense, and served a good purpose.

Nowadays, most of that does not stand true. A book can be digitally distributed, a physical version can be crowdfunded easily. Plus, people have the MEANS to send back additional money to the auther if they wish (try sending 1USD to an author on the other side of the ocean 150 years ago).

No need for a new computer, you can run OpenBSD fine on that already.

And, just to clarify, while this is legal, strictly speaking, it's not right, or a good business practice either.

What's a "custom domain"? Or rather, which domains aren't custom?
I think that "Avoid evil companies like paypal and godaddy" are the only real lesson here.

Also, unclear what happened to Linux support.

The LO is only gradually changing to look (and work) more and more like MSO, in order to make MSO users more at home. Of course, those of us who never used MSO, have nowhere to turn, and it looks like most of the feature on these realeases actually just target windows too.

Looks like we'll need a new Office suite for Linux and non-MSO users?

Indeed, Jolla is the direct succesor of the N9, which is somewhat of a succesor to the N900. I belive it's the closest choice in terms of software stack and openness. I also wouldn't be surprised if we see a keyboard back-lid for Jolla in future (with all the exchangable lids, and functionality they can have).

Game devs that want to target Linux will keep wanting to dev on _____.
Linux devs who want to start doing games, will keep wanting to develop on Linux.

Also don't forget the devs that "hate windows but use it because the SDK only works there". Those would fall into group two. Granted, it's not all the developers out there, but certainly a pretty large proportion of the total.

They wouldn't go out of business. They'd just shrink to their natural size.
Supose 100millon webcams get sold per year due to non-funciononness on new OSs. If they wrote drivers for new OSs as they come out, they'd probably sell way way less (10M?). But that's the size a that company should have, artificially inflating it with programed obsolecense is a waste of resources for humanity as a whole.

You say that until the driver that supports your card stops supporting the latest kernel, and you can't recompile it. Nor can anybody. You're just screwed. It's happened plenty of times, and will keep on hapening.

Also, open source and performant are not mutually exclusive (Intel Linux drivers).

Just the window manager really, no big incompatibility there. Most of us all use different ones already.

There's Windows XP 64bit edition. That's what my mother actually uses, and it supports all the amd64 architecture features.

Because that's not profitable. If company X writes windows 7 for old hardware, they can't sell you new hardware as easily.
Mind you, I don't approve of this, I'm merely explaining their rationale.

Someone wrote the driver for linux, most likely (a) for free, because he needed it, or (b) payed by the company. However, since the linux kernel is far more stable (in terms of API) than windows, the driver just kept on working until today. I've got a webcam that supported up to windows 98. Yes, 98. It works fine on Linux.

Morality aside, and thinking just about money: yes, a yearly subscription is what's best for them. I think that's their goal as of Windows 8.1. Buy yearly payments and upgrades would not haved worked 10-15 years ago.

The cost for supporting a single machine that uses XP is equal to the cost of an unsold Windows 8 license.