Aren't they missing out Android in the Linux numbers?

Loki pretty much killed themselves, but LGP seem to be doing OK. Keeping it low key but putting out solid releases.

What makes you think open source projects accept random patches from random people? Especially software which is actually used. With most open source projects there is a small group of people who own the code and decide which patches get merged in. They're not that different to properly managed closed source projects, just with a larger possible contribution base for those low hanging fruit patches that fix minor annoyances, and the ability to bring decent contributors into the core team based on the quality of their work rather than their interview skills.

If what you said was true there would be no way that open source code that has been reviewed with automated defect detection tools would come out with fewer defects than closed source code, but it does.

It means there a difference between private and public spaces. I keep seeing this brought up as an argument against cameras in public places, but it's a bit of a fallacy, the debate needs to be around how much privacy people can expect in public places in a free society. The distinction between being seen by other people also going about their day to day life and being recorded on some electronic storage medium. Where your transitory movements or actions are turned into a permanent record of your whereabouts at a particular time.

I live in an English speaking county, i.e. England, and have discussed The GIMP with quite a few people. Some of them have had disabilities. The name has never once come up as a topic of interest. The only place I have ever seen it mentioned is on the internet.

Same issue here but Linux PC(+netbook) with PS3 for gaming needs. And unless there's a big explosion in Linux gaming it's likely to stay that way.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Nokia's N800, that was a fully fledged internet tablet running Maemo that was a precursor to the iPad, having much more in common with it than the tablet PCs of the time. Though it did support flash. Later firmware revisions brought a portable version of firefox and a more finger friendly UI. Though the soft keyboard always supported stylus or finger input. Mine must be about four years old now.

Netscape 6 may have been pretty bad compared to Mozilla, but it was never as bad as IE. At least it supported CSS correctly. Mind you, back then there were plenty of sites coded specifically for IE that probably looked awful in a standards compliant browser.

By 1999 Mozilla had started their milestone releases, and they had better standards support than IE. They milestones may have been pre-beta but where still stable enough to use as your day to day browser.

http://www-archive.mozilla.org/releases/history.html

So when IE6 was released in 2001 it was already behind in standards support yet they still allowed it to stagnate.

There were lots of Mozilla releases before IE6 came out, are you sure you're not thinking of IE5? IE6 was substandard right from the start, but it was a big step forward from IE4 which was abysmal.

There's an article in The Guardian about how the authorities asked the plane manufacturers to take part in discussions about volcanic ash safety levels but they weren't interested.

Pitivi is really easy to use. I was quite impressed how quickly I was able to put something together having no real experience of editing video. Think 15 minutes rather than half an hour. Diva looked promising at one point but that one seems to have died.

He said wife, not mom. You have issues ;-)

Not just the circles you move in but also the country you live in, those sound like pretty North American centric literary circles.