I would like to try "Beyond Meat"'s products. Seems awesome.

The powerful media companies in Hollywood have shown great results earlier. For instance, the White House threatened Russia trading with raised toll fees, unless Russia shut down an illegal MP3 site. Which Russia did. In Sweden the PirateBay was attacked by the government, in fact there are wikileaks diplomat mails proving this (site in swedish http://falkvinge.net/2010/12/2... ) that every new swedish law/investigation about "fighting terrorists" was in fact, commanded by the powerful media industry in Hollywood. For instance, Taylor Swift left Spotify, because she didnt earn any money. But Spotify said they paid millions to her. But her media company took the lion share and gave her tiny fraction so she left Spotify. In response, Spofity declared they pay 70% of all money they receive, to the media companies in Hollywood. And if the artists dont earn anything, it is not Spotify's fault. The media companies take everything. In fact, Spotify hardly earns any money because they pay so much to Hollywood. Thus, Google telling Hollywood that they earned 1 billion is chicken shit. They want more. Much more. They want 70% of what Google earns - just like Spotify. They will not be content with 1 billion.

Well, you can't deny the fact that Linux has some problems. Even Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton, Con Kolivas and other Linux kernel developers say so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

IBM is the biggest patent troll. Ever. Who else do you think get $2 billion a year from patent trolling alone? Why do you think IBM has so many patents? Many of the patents are really silly, obvious and has broad coverage. IBM was always considered the big bad company, until Microsoft took over the crown, but IBM has never ceased to being bad. Have you followed IBMs ugly maneuvours in the Mainframe market? Horrendous stories. Every competitor is sued, or bought. Why is IBM called the "Big Blue"? Because they have so many lawyers in blue suits. More lawyers than engineers at one point in time. What do IBM use all those lawyers for? At IBM, a lawyer is more profitable than an engineer, that is why. It was really dumb by SCO to attack IBM for Linux patent trolling, IBM is the king of patent trolling. Really really stupid by SCO, they should know that no one can extract patent profit from IBM. IBM is the big extractor. IBM needed that Linux case, to polish the bad IBM reputation. Sun Microsystems never cared about patents, until IBM nearly bankrupted Sun. After that, Sun started to patent everything and the engineers had a contest to get the goofiest patent. As told by James Gosling, father of Java: http://nighthacks.com/roller/j... "...In Sun's early history, we didn't think much of patents. While there's a kernel of good sense in the reasoning for patents, the system itself has gotten goofy. Sun didn't file many patents initially. But then we got sued by IBM for violating the "RISC patent" - a patent that essentially said "if you make something simpler, it'll go faster". Seemed like a blindingly obvious notion that shouldn't have been patentable, but we got sued, and lost. The penalty was huge. Nearly put us out of business. We survived, but to help protect us from future suits we went on a patenting binge. Even though we had a basic distaste for patents, the game is what it is, and patents are essential in modern corporations, if only as a defensive measure. There was even an unofficial competition to see who could get the goofiest patent through the system...." Another patent trolling story where IBM attorneys black mail Sun: "Pay us $20 million or we will find some IBM patents you do violate and sue you" http://www.forbes.com/asap/200... "...My own introduction to the realities of the patent system came in the 1980s, when my client, Sun Microsystems--then a small company--was accused by IBM of patent infringement. Threatening a massive lawsuit, IBM demanded a meeting to present its claims. Fourteen IBM lawyers and their assistants, all clad in the requisite dark blue suits, crowded into the largest conference room Sun had. The chief blue suit orchestrated the presentation of the seven patents IBM claimed were infringed, the most prominent of which was IBM's notorious "fat lines" patent: To turn a thin line on a computer screen into a broad line, you go up and down an equal distance from the ends of the thin line and then connect the four points. You probably learned this technique for turning a line into a rectangle in seventh-grade geometry, and, doubtless, you believe it was devised by Euclid or some such 3,000-year-old thinker. Not according to the examiners of the USPTO, who awarded IBM a patent on the process. After IBM's presentation, our turn came. As the Big Blue crew looked on (without a flicker of emotion), my colleagues--all of whom had both engineering and law degrees--took to the whiteboard with markers, methodically illustrating, dissecting, and demolishing IBM's claims. We used phrases like: "You must be kidding," and "You ought to be ashamed." But the IBM team showed no emotion, save outright indifference. Confidently, we proclaimed our conclusion: Only one of the seven IBM patents would be deemed valid by a court, and no rational court would find that Sun's technology infringed even that one. An awkward silence ensued. The blue suits did not even confer among themselves. They just sat there, stonelike. Finally, the chief suit responded. "OK," he said, "maybe you don't infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go back to Armonk [IBM headquarters in New York] and find seven patents you do infringe? Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?" After a modest bit of negotiation, Sun cut IBM a check, and the blue suits went to the next company on their hit list...." Twitter pays $36 million. IBM earns $2 billion annually from patent licensing: http://arstechnica.com/busines... . IBM threatens the Mainframe software emulator TurboHercules. Mainframe emulation is so successfull that you can emulate a midsized IBM Mainframe on a decent x86 server. This is not because the emulator is good, it is because the IBM Mainframe cpus are slow, they are much much much slower than a decent x86. This is the reason IBM shut down an emulator. Remember, emulating a foreign z12 cpu architecture is 5-10x slower than running native code on x86, but still IBM was afraid of it. If the emulation was too slow to be usable, IBM would not have bothered shutting down an open source emulator. IBM released 511 patents to open source community, to polish their bad reputation, but as soon IBM discovered TurboHercules used the released patent, IBM threatened to sue, and shut the emulator down completely. You can emulate an IBM Mainframe succesfully on your laptop, that is the reason IBM is afraid of emulators. http://arstechnica.com/informa...

"...Combine that with OpenSolaris now basically abandonware..." There are many OpenSolaris distros out there by the community. It is true that OpenSolaris is abandoned by Oracle, but the community carries on. The most popular OpenSolaris distros out there are OmniOS and SmartOS. OpenIndiana to some extent. But there are several more OpenSolaris distros out there. Oracle only cares about high margin high end customers, so they dont care about small companies.

Solaris is very alive and kicking. Oracle sells lot of Solaris servers. Solaris 12 is on it's way, right on track. Oracle have more engineers on Solaris and SPARC than Sun ever did. Oracle has ramped up their investments in Solaris / SPARC. Larry Ellison has said "Solaris is for high end, Linux for low end". All the largest business servers are Unix, there are no large Linux business servers out there. For instance, look at the important business SAP or TPC-C benchmarks, the top spots are all Unix (Solaris and SPARC) and Linux and x86 are far below. Just look at all business benchmarks, you will see no Linux no x86. Linux is very fine on scale-out clusters, such as SGI UV2000 or UV3000 with 1000s of cores. But they are all used for number crunching, just look at SGI customer stories. No SGI UV2000 in SAP or TPC-C benchmarks - they are useless for business workloads, they can not run them

With ZFS you can make a snapshot, i.e. a freeze of the entire disk in time. This means you can rollback to any of these time points when you want. These snapshots does not use additional space. This also means that if some virus messes up your system disk, no worry, because you can just rollback to an earlier snapshot in time. I have made much mistakes with Solaris, but each time I am going to do something weird, I make a snapshot (takes one second) and if I mess up, I just reboot in GRUB to an earlier state where the system disk worked fine. ZFS is a godsend.

Everybody talks about "wealthiest man on earth" and mentions Gates, etc. There are 83 persons on the world that own half the globe's assets. But they never talk about the wealthiest family, like this one, owning this company. If a single man like Gates can build a $70 billion fortune in a life time, what can a dynasty build over centuries? Which is the wealthiest family today? Google it, and be surprised.

You are correct, timing is everything. Maybe you have read the book "Outliers" by Gladwell? In it he examines why Gates, Jobs, etc became so successful. Are they smarter than the rest? No, it is all about timing. In a short window, the computer industry was shaping and if you had the right knowledge you could create a company that became a leader. He dissects several successful business men and shows that it is all about timing. The IT giants (Jobs, Gates, etc) all were born roughly in the same year. If you were born outside that window, chances are much much smaller that you succeed in creating a giant IT company. For instance, he talks about hockey players. All elite hockey players, are born in january, february or march. If you are born in january, instead of december, you had almost a year more of physical development. Which translates into you being drafted into hockey schools instead of the december boy. And your hockey teacher focuses more on january boy (because he is better) and gives him more training. So he is selected to play more matches, instead of sitting on the bench. Over the years, this accumulates and adds up. So after 10 years, he is maybe twice as good as the december boy. So ALL elite players are born in jan/feb/mar. If you are born in december, you are NEVER going to make it to the top as a hockey player. There is NO elite hockey player that are born in december. But he also talks about... basketball(?) players that gets drafted in june. And guess what, all the elite NHL players are born in... June, July or August. If you are born in May you are never going to make it to the top as a basket player. Just drop it and change career plans. The book is _extremely_ interesting and again and again he explains that timing is everything. There is a short window where you can succeed. If not, it will be much much more difficult. FreeBSD was sued in court so nobody would touch FreeBSD. So Linus T had a window of opportunity. If FreeBSD were not sued in court, it would surely has won because FreeBSD was technically superior than a Linux kernel made by a teenager who just learned to program. The code was _bad_. That is why Linus unwinds code in Linux, because he did not know the best way to do stuff. So he experimented and tried this and that. He had to learn the hard way what works or not. That is also why Linux has no stable kernel ABI, so it is a moving target which creates lot of threads on "I upgraded Linux and now my sound card / printer / etc does not work". All OSes except Linux, has stable kernel ABIs. If Linux device driver model was superior, all OSes would change their driver model.

You should read the book "Outliers" by Gladwell. In it he examines why Gates, Jobs, etc became so successful. Was it because they were smarter than the rest? No, it is all about timing. In a short window, the computer industry was shaping and if you had the right knowledge you could create a company that became a leader. He dissects several successful business men and shows that it is all about timing. The IT giants (Jobs, Gates, etc) all were born roughly in the same year. If you were born outside that window, chances are much much smaller that you succeed in creating a giant IT company. For instance, he talks about hockey players. All elite hockey players, are born in january, february or march. If you are born in january, instead of december, you had almost a year more of physical development. Which translates into you being drafted into hockey schools instead of the december boy. And your hockey teacher focuses more on january boy (because he is better) and gives him more training. So he is selected to play more matches, instead of sitting on the bench. Over the years, this accumulates and adds up. So after 10 years, he is maybe twice as good as the december boy. So ALL elite players are born in jan/feb/mar. If you are born in december, you are NEVER going to make it to the top as a hockey player. There is NO elite hockey player that are born in december. But he also talks about... basketball(?) players that gets drafted in june. And guess what, all the elite NHL players are born in... June, July or August. If you are born in May you are never going to make it to the top as a basket player. Just drop it and change career plans. The book is _extremely_ interesting and again and again he explains that timing is everything. There is a short window where you can succeed. If not, it will be much much more difficult. FreeBSD was sued in court so nobody would touch FreeBSD. So Linus T had a window of opportunity. If FreeBSD were not sued in court, it would surely has won because FreeBSD was technically superior than a Linux kernel made by a teenager who just learned to program. The code was _bad_. That is why Linus unwinds code in Linux, because he did not know the best way to do stuff. So he experimented and tried this and that. He had to learn the hard way what works or not. That is also why Linux has no stable kernel ABI, so it is a moving target which creates lot of threads on "I upgraded Linux and now my sound card / printer / etc does not work". All OSes except Linux, has stable kernel ABIs. If Linux device driver model was superior, all OSes would change their driver model.