I give away stuff for free and still manage to live pretty well. So does FOSS.

Ubuntu != Linux.

And "Debian testing" is called "testing" for a reason. See if you can figure out what that is.

I thought you were describing a quantum Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, myself.

Crap, now I'm hungry.

Engage your sarcasm detector, and try again.

Only if you assume that they're both douchebags. Assuming that, just because some people are douchebags, everyone's a douchebag, is not a nice way to live.

In any case, your analogy is flawed.

As a US citizen living (more or less permanently) overseas, that sure works out for me real well...

My Linux desktop worked just fine for years* before Shuttleworth and his Fishery-Pricey, one-size-fits-all, ow-thinking-about-stuff-is-too-hard desktop even showed up on my "What the hell is this crap?" list, thanks very much.

*(Not 10,000 years, admittedly, but a number of them.)

My grailslaves have been transcribing my /. posts onto stone tablets and then carrying them upRiver to the server for the last 10,000 years. Why should I abandon a system that continues to work perfectly well for me?

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No RCS on the planet can cure a CEO who insists on micro-managing something she obviously knows nothing about.

Get. Out. Now.

Run, do not walk.

It's not just about the money. It's also about control.

What if you're a Communist who also likes baseball?

Let's worry about following the Constitution as it is, first. Then we can talk about your fantasy version.