Sorry but either way it's irrelevant. I'm sure Red Hat and Novell make a nice profit from GPL, sure they didn't choose the GPL for Linux, but they sure use it to make a profit. The GPL allows making a profit, basically you could have used a license LIKE the GPL but just added your own clause that it must not be used for commercial gain, job done, problem solved.

Unfortunately that is a US legal case, in the original letter the lawyers for the NPG state why the findings of that case are not applicable in the United Kingdom

But how many end users actually ever need to use regedit compared with CLI on Linux?

Except that the article does not mention what version or SP of XP they are comparing against so their evaluations can't be genuinely compared until they actually give all details I'd expect XP and XP SP3 to give different benchmarks

Well, exactly, except to say for the Vista/Windows 7 GUI.... OMG shiny, I must upgrade!

But should an operating system that is 8 years older really run just as fast, if not faster on exactly the same hardware? I suspect the answer is, it depends. It depends on many factors, such as new features, new processes or simply extra bloat.

That was way back in 1958, surely things could have moved on by now considering North America only contains 5% of the World's population.

How such an important function was run by a single country. The problem is how do you structure such an important organisation so that it is run by the international community and actually get things done, rather than just debate and run around in circles!

Can't we just get all IP block holders to once again demonstrate their need for each and every IP, if they don't reply or bother, simply recover them.

Because my car definitely needs it's own IP address, just so I can browse the Internet using IE6, get infected with a virus and crash the car!