The changes to the law / interpretation is part of the mechanisms of how the pendulum swings as the swinging is a human thing, so it happens on longer time scales. But it can definitely feel like it's over. (But each swing is different.)

Don't do this because of this, you will be a pawn being told to do something with a potentially massive cost to yourself and very little gain / loss on either side, not to mention other than the owning corporation what does source control have to do with operating systems. It doesn't send the right message of a boycott. It would hardly register on Microsoft charts.

Look a new endpoint to guard with your life.

It's borderline if it's too good to be true... I wonder about the long term stability of signal. I guess if it does disappear it does leave the protocol. However I would have wished for some means of integration between the signal compatible providers. (Perhaps it exists and I'm not aware?)

If amazon can pull of people paying for this, this opens the doors to many more companies with different philosophies producing devices, perhaps even reverse engineering the existing devices including open source. If not, e-waste.

To be fair.. A game written in a garage or not is still a cog of sorts of a larger system. :P

And proved it at the same time! :P

But.... Does it have enough traction?

Redhat -> Mandrake -> Knoppix -> Gentoo -> (Solaris) -> Ubuntu

Think of the items they sell as independent products that extend the game, and it works fine.

In places that I have worked so far. They have not.

Ah cool. Small world ... sorta. I guess. Been doing the whole Sapir-Whrof thing myself with learning Lojban since 05. :P

It may seem odd but I would say Godel Escher Bach. I can't really think of any other book that I would consider worth while reading at the start of my carear. (I am actually thinking of before my college education.)

Hey, mind if I ask you a zOS related question. My email is valid.

I think it represents a conflict of interest when you are in-charge or the 'developing' nation. Especially when it has natural resources, or if you are primarily there to harvest a cash crop.