Did you miss the point of the title of this website?

Well rounded is not about jack of all trades in your field. It's about exposure to the soft skills needed like communicating to others, economic skills, and triggers for innovation (outside of the box thinking).

...is obvious. This is why I don't visit /. as much as I used to.

I think your CEO number is way off, which is why your specious argument fails. The myth of fair wages for CEOs is one of the problems with the conservative mantra. Free market ostriches stick their heads in the Fox News sand while the economy visibly deteriorates for the 99%.

I find LyX to be much better for word processing and presentations than any of the office suites. I was never a big fan of the office suite bundling, because I always found my needs for one aspect were better served by a different company than my needs for some other aspect.

Professional players unions arose from a need, even if they seem laughable now. One reason athletes should get higher pay is that they have much shorter careers. i.e., 15 years vs. 40 years.

Wow! What an amazing load of ignorance. Obviously you should go get your teaching certificate, so you can become one of the chosen few.

Stating truth isn't trolling, and this site should have an inherent anti-Microsoft bias. Microsoft deserves what it gets from past and present actions. /. Is heading the way of comp.os.os2.advocacy; being taken over by pro-Microsoft trolls.

If I had mod points I'd mod you up. Posts like yours are automatically modded to oblivion anymore, because as you've pointed out, /. has been targeted by the Microsoft astroturfers. I'm starting to wonder if the MS shills outnumber the *nix users now. Rename to \.?

From the Open Watcom wiki, "An Open Source license from Sybase allows free commercial and non-commercial use of Open Watcom." How much more free do you want it?

If you want a sense of history, compile it on OS/2. ;-)

People on PCs have a choice?

You have to also realize that probably over half of software developers are willfully ignorant and therefore incompetent, which is why technology promotion on /. looks like a good path to larger acceptance.

Why? How is an application accessing Google services limiting my choices or affecting my productivity? Both were effects of the Microsoft monopoly.