It was the locksmiths door in this case.

No the free stuff is an advertisement aimed at Microsoft etc. Who will now have to pay or risk losing the security race with open source software.

Imagine your little startup patents something and is egregious copied by a large, rich company. If the startup doesn't immediately have the funds to sue, the other company just gets to use the tech without the patent with no consequences. Seems unfair.

Going round claiming people are nefariously hiding the sources when you just hid them from yourself

I've tried this with latex and git doesn't lend itself that well, and it's certainly not convenient enough for online live collaboration with non-technical users.

It's not a discussion site, it's a q&a site. Bad answers waste people's time if they're not flagged.

A lot less than three years ago

When they say LibreOffice, they probably mean CODE which is the online version with collaborative editing etc.

So was your mom

Yeah maybe, but this has nothing to do with stopping these projects.

All these people concerned about birds could have 100x the impact by focuding thrir effort on campaigning to ban pet cats instead, if that's what they really care about.

Most naive comment on the Internet.

Incredibly unlikely that someone in a panic will call 101 instead of 999, get real

Well what is it you think you can't say in the UK that you want to?

These US bros who've never been to the UK or anywhere else for that matter are really full of shit.