That's not what Tivoization is. Tivoization is when you put copyleft software on a piece of hardware, but then lock down the hardware so that the users can modify the software in practise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization

What you are describing is legal even under GPLv3. You can distribute non-free programs along with free ones: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation

It's just you. Remember, those four freedoms apply to the user of the software.

I am reading it now, and I would probably be having a much harder time if I hadn't read Pro Git first (available online gratis). I'm thinking specifically of the concept of branches and HEAD being pointers to commits. I do appreciate the thoroughness of this book, though.

I was listening to the Linux Action Show podcast, and their take on it was that there was simply not as much news about desktop Linux as there once was. Android, though, is getting a lot of press, as well as searches, according to Google trends.

I thought the issue wasn't whether climate change was happening, but whether it was artificial or natural.

sci-fi != scientific

Diaspora is a project that aims to be that open and distributed alternative. The four students and graduates that started it have already managed to raise $16k to work on it this summer.

People can't live their lives if they're being aborted.

You always had to register for the free version of Avast, and re-register every six months.

Sorry, I'm afraid that just doesn't cut it. Even if you refuse to argue with them because you're expecting them not to listen, name calling is not justified. Or absurd generalisations.

There is a free certificate authority: http://www.cacert.org/ . Unfortunately, it's not "official", but the root certificate is installed by default on a lot of free systems. (see ca-certificates package in Debian) I'm sure slashdot users are techy enough to understand it.

I like companies that think "do no evil" is good for business. We should have more of them.