How about, when I retire?

You may be right, as the poster does not give any details. However, if we are to believe the poster, the build scripts, which in the case of VS would be the project files, are not given, and this _is_ a violation of the GPL.

While I agree fully with the comment, I want to emphasize that the GPL license is a model copyright license, because it _lets_ the user really decide. If the user don't want to accept it, then they don't use the software and that's it. Nothing else to do.
On the other hand if you purchase a computer with Windows preinstalled, and _after_ that you purchased it you read the license, and don't agree, then what? Will you get your money back? We all know that this is seldom the case. It is also a lot of trouble for the obvious.

FYI, for the last 10 years or so, I have repeatedly asked my supplier, who is a friend of mine, to buy a laptop without windows. He always replied: not a chance, though he used more colorful words (on the other hand I have bought custom built desktops with SuSE).

Zubrin, suggested a manned vehicle going to Mars every 2 years, with much less cost (once the designs and the prototypes are finalized, something like soyuz). He suggested sustained human presence in Mars, where each crew lives on Mars for over a year, in habitats made on earth. IMO this is not "Apollo sort", quite the opposite.
The main purpose of the crew is to find ways to live off the land and as the crew are highly educated scientists and engineers, chances are that they will accomplish a lot.
Finally, after many years, a small community of habitats will have been established.

And no, you can't transfer billions or millions of people to Mars. But Zubrin's plan is a start, and after that, necessity is the mother of invention. And even a small community breeds.

I tend to agree that Obama got that right. But this does not mean that human space exploration and colonization needs radical new propulsion systems that will always be 30 years from now. We can do this with existing technology. As for the specific impulse needed I refer you to the book of Zubrin, where he has a lengthy description and discussion of the various engines/fuel, including nuclear thermal rockets.

Any kind of persecution.
Zubrin, in the Case for Mars, claims that democracy and advancement (technological, society) happens when there is expansion; when there is possibility to go somewhere else if things get bad. It is an interesting read and I recommend it.
For example, as it has been said often in slashdot, linked lists are patented. With America pressing the world for ridiculous intellectual rights, extended to infinity, where will you go to escape this?
Necessity is the mother of invention, and the invention of a Mars habitat, IMO, will certainly give new ideas on earth (there is no way to destroy Mars habitat; you can't destroy it if it does not exist).

It is my belief that it is the other way round. It is when we learn to cope with another planet (Mars?) that we will bring the knowledge back to cope with earth.
If Europeans hadn't colonized America, until they solved their problems here (in Europe), we would still be in the dark ages.

Wrong. Look up "The case for mars" by Zubrin.

From what I have gathered, the space (spacetime?) of the universe expanded FTL. Anything INSIDE the universe never broke the light speed.

This raises the question. The universe expands into what?

The funny thing about this list is that the last sentence is not funny; it's true.

Please slashdot moderators. Enlighten me why is the parent informative, but not the grandparent?

I looked at the link that you mention, and I found out that the folks there gave a solution. Use GIMP to rotate the image and insert to your word processor.
Sometimes I need to rotate some images 32.2365 grad (not degrees, gradians). It is trivial to convert between degrees and grad. Does/should MSOffice do this? (I confess I have no idea. I 've been using OpenOffice, and StarOffice before it, since 2000 - or was it 1999?).
Because GIMP is free to use, you are not forced to buy additional software to do a rotation. And if you used a Linux distribution, the odds are that GIMP would already be installed. And chances are, that you are able to do better job to an image with GIMP.
But if this is trouble to you (it really isn't; my 7 years old son does it routinely to print photos), continue to use (and pay for) Microsoft Office.