I believe it's the carriers who install it (hence 'CarrierIQ') not the phone mfr, BICBW

or a fear that they are about to be dumped by all their customers due to the negative publicity.

All of them if you want to run an ssh daemon on port 22

That is not the typical Linux experience. You are either deliberately making things difficult for yourself, or too stupid to be using a computer.

WTF are you talking about? How is consulting banned in the EU?

They don't necessarily need to catch up, there's a very large Windows user base that are very happy with XP and haven't seen the need to 'upgrade'.

Which just adds to the confusion, as many Android users now think that Linux is 'made by Google'

What's 'a magnitude of order'?

Look at the output of 'iwlist scan' on a wireless linux box.
First line of each cell looks like very much like a MAC address to me.

Clearly you're unaware that quality ISPs actually do exist. I use A&A nothing shit about them and worth every penny. In fact they're not even that expensive.

> Some honest opinions of Mono might be helpful as I seem to be blissfully unaware of the problems related to it

What's wrong with it is it pollutes the Linux ecosystem with Microsoft IP.
Some think that's risky, and some of us don't care about that but just don't want to use anything that has any connection with MS.

I'd like an invite please - pcb1962(at)gmail.com thanks

Not on the desktop yet, unfortunately.

Nobody gonna help me out here?