Its worth pointing out that when you pull in a package from npm, there is no guarantee that its the package you expected to pull in. We also saw this week that the npm administrator is perfectly happy to change the package that's represented by a particular name.

There are a bunch of apple apps and services supplied bundled with their phones

This nicely demonstrates the benefits of open systems, that are free of arbitrary restrictions placed to hinder competition.

The logical conclusion of your argument is to cut out the middleman you left in place by eliminating the government and funding scientists directly.

This is their play to get their own app store. If they can get a 30% cut on all games involving DX14 for example (by obliging DX14 games to use their app store), then they will be raking it in. There is no way they will give up on this strategy, as the benefits are too high.

Personally I say fuck them, they shit on PC gaming with GfWL because they were focusing on xbox, so I'm glad that Steam ate their lunch while they weren't looking. To add insult to injury, there are games now that are defunct because they relied on GfWL which was then abandoned by MS.

It turns out that Gaben was right all along about the need for SteamOS.

People who have been laid off as part of the elimination of a single position are going to be rather pissed off, as they got shafted.

SteamOS was necessary after all!

They have said:
> Yes, it is certainly possible to create an entirely new operating system to undermine our security features as the government wants.

Apple has never said that its impossible for the data to be revealed, they have just said that they refuse to assist the FBI.

But if its possible to write software to decrypt the phone's data, then its not actually cryptographically secured - or at least the key is available. In any case, if apple doesn't do this task for the FBI, NSA/CIA will do it at greater cost.

I'm not having an operating system that inserts advertising into my most private device in my home.

Free would be nice, open source even nicer.

They take public domain documents then put them behind a wall where you can't download or print them unless you sign up or subscribe.

Its complete bullshit.

Or as Nokia would have called it, out of the frying pan, into the fire.

But as men we have to deal with it. If this is a feminist issue, then a logical consequence might be that women need protecting from men because they are too weak to protect themselves, i.e. men and women aren't equal... but this exactly the opposite of most lines of feminist thinking. Smells like a proof by contradiction.

Ian Murdock, of course, being different to Ian Jackson,