As a current Windows Phone user, no you don't. I started on Windows Phone 7 and I'm still here in WP10, the experience has pretty much gone down hill. With the Exception of WP8.1, that was halfway decent. Everything else has just..... sucked. Microsoft hid the date applications were last updated in their app store because many of their apps have turned into abandon ware. Android and iOS are so far a head in features and functionality, I really do get envious when I pick up an iPhone or a mid to highend Android device.

I really like how you left Windows Phone out of the mix there. As someone who currently has a Windows 10 phone and a tablet that runs Windows 10 I think you are being over optimistic. I remember one of the big selling points with Windows 8.x on tablets was the ability to have the desktop on your tablet. When my tablet was running Windows 8.x and it would switch over to the desktop, it would absolutely infuriate me. I wanted the metro interface on my tablet and my desktop on my desktop computer and laptop. And when I did try to force myself to accept and like a desktop on a tablet it just angered me even more because of how bad it functioned.

When the update for my tablet hit I updated it to Windows 10 and they finally had it where you could put it in a tablet mode, but the damage was done to me by then. I had picked up a Chromebook and fell in love with that it. I haven't touched that tablet in months, I have zero interest for windows on a tablet now, and I don't see any compelling reason to turn the tablet on and use it anymore. Seriously, I updated the tablet to Windows 10 and then used it for about 10 minutes, kind of shrugged my shoulders and went, "Meh," powered it off, put it up and haven't thought about it until today. What is so special about windows on a tablet? As I sit here and think about it I cannot think of anything which would make me want to stop using my Chromebook or abandon my Linux desktop to spend time on that tablet.

Then there is my Windows Phone, or Windows Mobile, or whatever MS is calling it these days. I started on WP7 and it was cool because there was a decent modding community and you could put custom roms on your device. Sure, it didn't have some of the features that iOS or Android had, and it was lacking 3rd party apps, but it at least had a cool modding community. Then came WP8 and MS shat on the modding community with their secure boot BS. Out went the custom roms, cool stuff, and the community. Still WP8.x lacked some of the features that iOS and Android had and still lacked good 3rd party apps. Don't misunderstand me here, there are 3rd party apps in the windows store but most are total crap that is either spam of some sorts or is now abandon ware. I will say I liked WP8.1, I found that alright just needed to 3rd party apps. Then they dropped WP10 and the update hit my phone so I eagerly updated. I LOST functionality on my MS Band.My MS Band works better with Android now then it does with my Windows Phone. I hate the layout of Outlook in WP10, I hate the layout of the messaging app in WP10. I also hate the layout of the dialer. In fact, I hate the layout of just about everything in WP10, it's so backwards and unintuitive. Now I have to clear notifications one at a time instead of clearing them all at once. Still shit apps in the apps store. What the heck is up with the one handed mode? It's more annoying than helpful. Cortana and dictation no longer work. Still no modding community. I pick up someones iPhone and I say this phrase about ten times, "Wow, I wish my phone did that." I pick up someones Android and say the same thing. But, at least my WP has a decent battery life, I am going to attribute that to no apps worth running to drain your battery.

Window Phone 10 is just as unimpressive as Windows on tablets it.

I've used her enough on my Windows Phone that once my WP updated to WP10 and Cortana stopped working I never missed her.

Yeah, When I picked up a Windows Phone and it got updated to have Cortana I was excited. Then I played with it and it was boring after five minutes and never really used it again. Now my phone is updated to Windows Phone 10 and Cortana doesn't even work anymore. I haven't missed it one bit. Then there is Cortana in Windows 10 which is infuriating. You type "Control Panel" and nothing is found. So you delete Panel just leaving "Control" and nothing is found. Then you start deleting one letter at a time from Control until you are left with "Cont" then cortana finds the Control Panel. Wash, rinse, repeat with whatever application. Could have just mouse clicked my way to whatever I wanted quicker.

Cool, because I am writing this in elinks.Have a gooday

Because Firefox doesn't support Silverlight. Which is very good, i'm proud of them, because silverlight is the crack whore of application frameworks. Netflix should be ashamed of themselves for using it.

I was the same when they dropped the first consumer technical releases, it was great, everything Windows 8 should have been. Then Microsoft finally dropped the stable release for mass consumption and it was good. When they offered the free upgrade to Windows 10 I started moving my company over to it.

Now, after experiencing Windows 10 day in and day out at the office, and the constant bewilderment of Microsoft's decisions regarding it, I have come to like Windows 10 less and less. I am to the point now where I prefer Windows 8.1 over 10. As it stands, I intend to pitch Linux as a viable alternative for our business in the near future. About the only thing that would really tie us to Windows at this point is peoples inability to user any other mail application besides Outlook. And I desperately want to cure people of that horrid mail client. ;)

Don't know why someone modded you down to zero, you are techincally correct. Anyone that knows the history of Mozilla knows it was birthed when Netscape release the source code of their browser to the world. It's even the first sentence on the history page of Mozilla.org.

Dang, I really liked that site too. Used to be _the_ place to go look if you wanted to find some software. Then they added themes and all that on there, it was great. It's a shame that freshmeat has faded away into obscurity. :(

I'm glad to see the positive changes made by SF. I've always hoped they would come back around for the better. Maybe, with some luck, freshmeat.net can come back too.

I would just like to point out that there is nothing in the GNU GPL that prohibits selling the software. It simply requires that the source code be provided with the ability to make changes and redistribute those changes under the conditions that original author is given credit and the redistributed software must distributed under the same license with the same rights. Nothing at all about not being able to sell your software. Despite this many companies that deal with GPLed software have adopted the business model of giving the software away but charging for support and services. Maybe people are seeing this business model and coming under the misconception that the software must be given away?