Actually, DOS would have been a better choice, as they could then keep the system running indefinitely using FreeDOS.

Really, for a SCADA, there's no point having Windows unless you actually need a GUI, and maybe not even then.

Well, personally I was considering moving to Debian, but there really aren't that many APT-based distros with good KDE flavor.

The UK has three major political parties. All three are authoritarian now. The current Conservative/Liberal authoritarian government is proposing this move; the previous authoritarian Labour government introduced the long term database that tracks where you drive and keeps the information for two years, and handed access to the US in case they wanted to track people.

The Bush administration did spend money, though. They ripped out a working IBM Lotus Notes solution and replaced it with Microsoft Exchange.

It's not like the broken Bush administration e-mail system was something they inherited from a previous administration. It's something they deliberately chose to spend money to install.

UN control seems to work OK for the telephone system.

No they aren't. RFCs are coordinated by the IETF, and anyone from any country can participate in writing them.

You missed a good one:

RFC 1480 section 1.2:

"Even though the original intention was that any educational institution anywhere in the world could be registered under the EDU domain, in practice, it has turned out with few exceptions, only those in the United States have registered under EDU, similarly with COM (for commercial)."

They were never intended to be.

RFC 1480 section 1.2:

"Even though the original intention was that any educational institution anywhere in the world could be registered under the EDU domain, in practice, it has turned out with few exceptions, only those in the United States have registered under EDU, similarly with COM (for commercial)."

Jumping ship is a lot of hassle. I'd feel much more confident that Apple weren't planning to lock down OS X if they weren't busy purging all the GPL software from OS X.

I hope you're right and that Apple add the options from GateKeeper to iOS.

I'm betting they won't, though.

OK, so you have no evidence. Of course, it would be easy enough for Apple to issue a written guarantee that they won't lock down OS X.

Why would it break the Macintosh? So long as they offered approved Apple developers a way to unlock the machine for $99 a year and run their own code, who would be impacted?

OK... So why doesn't iOS have a similar "unlock" option? They could have made iOS work just like this new OS X feature. Why didn't they?

And to put it the other way, why wouldn't they make OS X like iOS? They've been wildly successful with iOS.

As of end of last year, free IDs didn't come with the required certificate. You had to pay.

(I signed up as a Mac developer, but they rejected all my apps, so I canceled.)

If Apple had shipped the iPhone and iPad with an option to turn off the jail, I'd have bought an iPhone and iPad. But the fact that they didn't do so makes me distrust their motivations with Gatekeeper on OS X.

Oh, don't worry, you'll just need to join the developer program for $99 a year to get access to run your code on 'your' computer. Like with the iPad.

[Citation needed]

I've been a Mac user since 1986, and I currently have two Macs, three iPods, a Time Capsule and an AppleTV in the house. And I'm upset about the gradual frog-boiling march to locked down OS X.