It seems to me that the tradeoffs Minix makes lends itself to better hardening and security, let alone simplicity and maintainability in the code base. I am excited to see what the Minix community produces now that they have some dedicated developers and are using NetBSD pkgsrc for userland. Cheers!

One situation that comes to my mind is this:

Suppose I pay for cable and get every channel that has a show that I download with bittorrent. If I keep the show until I watch it, then delete it, I haven't done anything except time-shift the show, correct? And since time-shifting is legal, I think it would be fair to say that I am more or less playing by the rules.

Granted, most people probably archive their shows, which would certainly violate laws. Still, for the very few of us that actually care about not breaking the law, this seems like an adequate solution.

I appreciate seeing sane people on slashdot. More power to ya bud.