But the Blackberry is slightly heavier so if you set it on some papers, the wind can't blow them away as easily.

Plus the phone itself is more serious about business and frowns upon distractions.

Surely you jest ... I'm getting a Blackberry for the games and the Facebook integration.

This is an experimental technology.

Steep obstacles: comfort, perception that you will be a privacy-invader, eye health, battery life .. these have an uphill battle.

Look, I was once a GPL diehard. I fell off that bandwagon because I saw that freedom also means "freedom to ignore the needs of the user". You and I would find kinship in the ultimate correctness of free and open source software, I just have seen that the model in place will never get us there. I long pondered the questions before coming to a conclusion though ...

Don't try to promote boost. It won't work. Every neck-beard gnuknows that Boost is a C++ library which is the evil seed of a corrupted C++ utopia ideals corrupted by $MS. Nice try tho ...

Ah yes ... switch away from Windows. Sure, sure. Windows sucks. They should switch to OS X, clearly. Linux has had over a decade to try to iron-out an environment as a mainstream alternative to Windows ... and have fallen flat on their faces so many times it is difficult for even a Windows-hater like myself to recommend Linux as an alternative. OS X is the Unix that "works" out of the box.

A Linux neck-beard and a Windowz guy fighting it out. I used to GNUknow which one to root for ...

PHP and MySQL aren't "true" GPL. They are GPL with "exceptions" or inherent exceptions "i.e. run it as a server and the GPL claouse of distrubtion doesn't apply".

I didn't have a say in what my mum named me. Thanks for insulting me mum.

Except you are wrong.

With responsibility comes accountability, and free and open source cannot offer this.

For those with a background in economics, I shall allow you to pencil in the blanks.

It isn't that open source is "wrong", it just isn't "right". Not yet it isn't ...

So what is the obvious in this scenario? That they have a zero 0 budget or what?

If so, why didn't they switch to open source during the "good times"?

I'm just pointing out that if open source has merit, why should it take a budget crisis?

Go win that fight. I think most informed people understand the underlying issues with the Euro.

"How would you promote such an act?"

I'd start with some marketing. And add some promotion into the mix.

[Stupid question deserves stupid answer. Really.]

Please don't do the boring "Europe is smarter" thing. If you guys were so smart historically, Europeans wouldn't have fled to the Americas to start a new life in the 1700s through 1800s and we wouldn't have had to bail your chestnuts out of the fire in WWI, WWII and with the Soviet Empire.

If you want to be "superior" don't talk, just prove it ...

You can do this by solving Greece's problems, or Italy's or Spain's or get major credit and "solve" Iran or North Korea.

Talk is cheap, if you want to be "superior", lead by example and solve some problems in this world for real ... instead of talking it up --- anyone can do that and talk is cheap.

CaN brain-dead numbnuts quit quoting "Betteridge's law of headlines"? It was funny maybe a year ago.

File "Betteridge's law of headlines" along with "All Your Base" jokes, Star Trek SNG Picard jokes, "But does it blend?" jokes ...

And everything else long past its expiration date.