The EU seems already busy with moving in the direction of open source software.

By the way: there is a difference between the EU and Europe. That being said, neither is a country.

I'm glad I don't live in the USA, which scores 94th on the world crime index and 58th in the safety index... Seems to me the USA isn't such a safe country.

A child cannot be expected to act responsibly or to have an idea of the consequences of its actions. The law and society should bend over backwards in order to protect any child, no matter what it has done.

Then again, the USA hasn't ratified the rights of the child treaty. It's the only country which hasn't done so yet. Disgusting.

Humans exist thanks to coffee. If it were not for coffee, we would be extinct right now.

You've been heard... and ignored.

Remember that root-canal treatment you needed five years ago? Yeah, now you can! Including all the extreme pain because the dentist could not anesthetize because it was infected.

Or how about perfectly remembering getting raped?

Yeah, that'll help create some phobias.

Microsoft didn't learn, they just hide their mess-ups through "rebranding" (the exact same thing with a different name).

I guess those paying lots of €€€ for a SLA will be able to get Microsoft to say anything in their licensing terms and get Windows altered accordingly.

It's the people that get their Microsoft stuff off the shelf who are getting messed with.

calculator 1GB of RAM, 4 CPU cores in full usage.
Text editor 4GB of RAM, 8 CPU cores, because your machine doesn't have more cores and you notice it while typing.
Web browser 64GB of RAM, to load all your porn tabs.
Compiler... don't get me started on this one.

Well, NASA apparently hates their astronauts so much they don't want them to return back to Earth alive.

They were probably given WIndows and Outlook because of cost cuts. This still baffles me, because Microsoft isn't exactly known for providing stable software and there's software readily available which is waaaay more stable than Windows and Outlook which also happens to be absolutely FREE and they could easily audit the source code.

So that's why they're basically rewriting it; getting rid of all the binary blobs and obfuscated stuff.

I hoped they asked FSF-Europe as the legal system in the EU is quite different than in the USA.

It's riddled with ways to make it difficult for others to contribute. There's comments in Russian (ok, originally Russian project, so to be expected), obfuscated code (not nice), and binary blobs in there.

OnlyOffice doesn't want people forking their project or even contributing to it. That being said, OnlyOffice is a commercial company, maintaining the project under the same name. They are allowed to do whatever they want to it.

That being said, when a fork happens, it's tough for them. Soon they'll face competition and they can't do anything about it.

Thing with taking humans to Mars is that these humans need to be confined in a small space for quite a while. Messages to Earth take longer and longer, so that takes phoning home on a whim out of the picture. On top of that, vacuum packed food even has a certain amount of time it can be kept. Also, drinking your own pee is not particularly a nice prospect, but a requirement on such missions.

What if there's a mechanical problem somewhere? Sorry, you can't quickly ask for a replacement part from Earth, and you still need to poop and piss. So you need to carry all of those parts along as well. Don't forget about the human body deteriorating in various ways, simply because there's almost no gravity.

No, Mars is totally not feasible at the moment, simply because it'd take too long to get there. Having a moon-base would make it more doable, as it becomes quite a lot easier to build a massive ship to accommodate three couples, so they won't go insane and murder each other, have enough spare parts, and have enough food stuffs to reach Mars and go home again. What you'd need to get there would need to be massive, and something of that size simply can't be launched from Earth, but it can be constructed a lot cheaper in orbit of the Moon.

Isn't that already the case?