Agreed, I think this is the best thing I have gotten out of Libre Office. I have a lot of old Power Point sets that need to be revised because they seem to be falling apart in newer Microsoft PowerPoint versions (they still look barely OK in the viewer), but they look just like the originally did with Libre. I have noticed many times that open source is often more compatible with 5-year old Microsoft 'documents' than the current Microsoft products.

I have to agree, at least to the extent that granting them a board seat (one) and letting them contribute, as mentioned by Bruce Perens, would do a lot to heal the ill will. And if there are no other corporate board members (IBM?) then they could provide useful input from that point of view, too.

Been using Libre Office since the first release (sorta buggy, but from second on, it's much more solid than Open Office ever was). Without the drag from the corporate offices, releases seem Really Fast (compared to the Open Office process) and easier to install, probably because of the shorter lag between underlying package releases and Office releases. I think the smaller group seems to have it together, and I sorta like it being fully independent (like Linux is). So in conclusion, let's just keep it the way it is....

Um, I beg to disagree, sucrose and lactose can't be absorbed in the stomach, they get broken down (in the sucrose case, into glucose and fructose) in the small intestines. In case you missed that biology class, the intestines are on the other side of the stomach from the mouth.

On the other hand, monosaccharides can be absorbed in the mouth or the stomach. Thus, they are not recommended for diabetics.

And by the way, some starches are broken down by saliva, others are broken down in the stomach. And the maltose produced is then digested in the small intestines (same place sucrose is absorbed, and about the same speed). So actually, starch and sucrose are pretty much equivalent as foods.

Here is a link to the Colorado State University quick handbook on the subject:

http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/smallgut/absorb_sugars.html

Note: no biochemistry - just human biology here.

Pure opinion! Potatoes have starch, very little sugar or fiber and only traces of everything else. And most of that is in the skin. They are a lot worse for you than cane sugar (raw sugar cane is a quarter dietary fiber - vs. a few percent dietary fiber in a baked potato). [My opinion.]

Onions and garlic would meet my requirements, but probably are not so good for your breath.

Closed = not open now. Think about OpenWatcom. It spent a dozen years as a closed source commercial product (not open yet). It's open source now. Same game. [Some] Android source is not open today. It might be some day in the future.

Gotcha wins!

It may be funny, but I wonder how true it is. Do you know anyone who runs Windows/XP with IE 7 so he/she can access particular web sites. It's not hard with virtualization or even simple minded LILO or GRUB solutions. I'm sure I hit over 50% of the web sites I access as a Windows box, even though I run either Gentoo or Ubuntu at least 95% of the time....

I think the problem Apple had with keeping the Firewire port might be more that it was not unpopular enough. At one time the only ubiquitous Firewire interfaces were on Macs. Today Windows supports ieee1394 (same thing) except in the 800 flavor everwhere. Dell systems for $399 have firewire and seamless support. So can you really use it to sell a Mac anymore?

Not including second and third mouse buttons (and making your system unique) is a lot like getting rid of a cheap, fast, commodity peer-to-peer interface that is relatively rarely used. Neither really makes the system a lot less useful.

Seriously, I think Steve would get rid of the wired Ethernet interface (wireless is just as good, and just as easy to set up, ;-) if he thought he could sell the idea - hardly anyone really needs more than 54Mbit throughput (+ or -). Or wired security. Or ignorance of WPA2, WEP, TLS, TKIP and mandatory access points.