I really do not understand why Sony does not allow me to install other OS on the PS4 hardware. I do not want any warranty or other business tricks for my PS4, I just want to use the hardware I own the way I want. And I want to install Linux and Steam without hassle and hacks.

Who is Bill Gates? Just some old rich guy that used to lead the company with a bad reputation. Why now his opinion matter? Just because he is enormously rich? Or his predictions and visions were always right? It is enough to remember that in the middle 90s he told us that the Internet and TCP/IP are dead and NetBIOS is tye future.

Well, the answer is simple. Weak encryption is used intentionally to ease cheating with votes. Russian government afraid to loose elections. MS guys just did as they have been asked to do. And the goal was to open easy way to falsification of elections.

Once upon a time this guy said that Internet will never survive and NetBIOS will rule the world

Well, It' very good idea to have KDE without Akonadi and Nepomuk. Only this can make KDE lightweight. :)) That are the parts I always turn off and I'd love to get rid of entirely. MySQL is another piece of shit that must be cleaned out. If some developer needs "select my,shit from config where other=shit and blahbalbal" to read simple app config, then it's clinic. I used Kmail for years and when it started to use mysql and Akonady I switched to Thinderbird because I do not need all this smartass stuff done by e-mail client in background. So, there's a lot of stuff to simplify in KDE.
But "Less tuning" sounds as not good idea because users love KDE of it's flexibility.

Well, developers just do what managers say them to do. But Fedora sales/management people are just crazy. They intentionally want to be may be more crazy then MS sales people with Win 8 :)

I guess telecom guys are the same around the world. The same situation is here in Ukraine. VoIP with SIP is just tabooed by law. Government officials publicly speak about taxing Skype and ICQ.

unfortunately, not only plugins, but JS....

Where in the hell they hurry with releases? "Release often, release early" madness continues...

Consumer have the right to buy what he wants to buy. I want "clean", standard-complaint hardware without any crap from Microsoft. It should be optional. If some customer wants it, he/she pays and gets it. If I do not want it because I'm not going to use it, I have right to buy product without the crap. Forcing me to pay for things I do not want to by and do not want to use is CRIME. So, Microsoft is pushing vendors and resellers to commit CRIME.

ACTA, PIPA, SOPA could make Americans most hated nation on the planet. Get a look at latest events in Poland, Ukraine and other counties.

I like FreeBSD, OpenBSD because no persons such as Lennart Poettring are around it. *BSD guys are true UNIX knights!

Let them wiretap anything, but use ZRTP an something like this http://zfone.com/index.html. Or something even better with ECC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography

Well, you are :) But how you can be so sure about things they can do and can not do with your computer? Can you read source code of entire shit that installed on? Do you use crystal ball?

OK, forget my paranoia. Microsoft and Apple are very good people, the can not do such shit to you. What about malware authors? Are you sure your Windows computer is not infected?

Insanity sometimes is near to genius... But stupidity never. :)

Theoretically they can do anything they want with your device remotely. But they just do not use this "feature" at the moment :) You're still insist that you own your device? Well, may be RMS, other GPL-centric people and I are insane, but you own only a piece of silicon and plastic. :)