The community wouldn't let him? When did other people's opinions ever stop somebody who was doing something powerfully ahead of its time? I never got the hate for Unity, but this is a cop out.

Since we're besting each other, I also have a box full of my grandfather's diaries after he found FMC(right down the street from the Monsanto plant in question) dumping barrels of cyanide in the Kanawha River in the 70's. The management threatened to kill him and his daughters.
You're right though, it's no better now. Despite the fact that the Nitro area(don't even get me started on Manilla Creek) had one of the highest concentrations of marker cancers in the world before the plants closed down, if you say anything negative about the chemical industry in town you're immediately attacked.

He's an impostor!. There's a hidden '99' between the 47 and 26.

Process isn't the problem, environment isn't the problem, language isn't the problem. The problem is that everyone looks to all of these things as the silver bullet that's going to "fix" software. Test driven development doesn't make good software any more than I-495 makes New York City. There is no silver bullet.

I deleted my Facebook account a week or so ago, and I was, at the time, hoping that diaspora would end up being something besides vaporware. After a week without it, though, I find myself pleased with my lack of knowledge about what people I didn't like in high school had for dinner.

Checking out Haiku is going to be like resurrecting your dead mother. Her soul is gone and she'll just try to eat your brains.

Why do you hate rogues so much?

He could have been replaced with a robot completely powered by C#, just like they did with Reagan in '81.