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Who, in their right mind, would want to destroy the cross-pollination of innovation within the global technology industry?

Dice, do you have the slightest inkling of what you are about to destroy?

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It is not.

The evidence of that is the "all sites" graph which shows IIS's share increasing vs. the "active sites" graph which shows IIS's share plummeting. IIS appears to be hosting a lot of dead sites, ironically.

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I'd want programmers that are driven to write quality software based upon factual reasons, not emotional ones.

In fact, the last thing I would want in a software engineering department is someone who is overly emotional.

But what else is the app reading in my text messages?

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facebook even collects the posts you start typing but decide not to send.

And that violates the BSD license, how?

Why do we humans define intelligence such that humans are the most intelligent creatures on this planet?

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Is that really a valid definition of intelligence, or just human self-importance and vanity?

If that is the case, then Windows 9.x may actually have a chance.

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Unfortunately, I doubt if Microsoft will be able to backtrack like that and call it progress.