yeah, really.... $4.99 for BETA software.

I don't care if I get to keep the software once it goes final.... users are paying for development AND acting as beta testers? Normally the beta testers at least get a free copy of the software for their efforts. People freak out about games being sold before development/testing was complete these days (cyberpunk 2077) why are people not all crying foul on this scam? Is it because it is "software" and not a "game".... boils down to the same thing to me. How can you charge for an incomplete product?

Aside from debating open shell's usefulness with windows 11... Stardock products have often been resource intense, buggy pieces of garbage... and worse, stardock charges for products of that quality, open shell/classic shell has always been free (donate anyhow) but has never been unstable or a resource hog.

I think slash should have a donation drive for the open shell team (maby some free banner ads?) to help get their product up to par for the official windows 11 release.

Does uber gaurentee that a certain percentage of their fleet will be handicapped or disabled accessible? I know that this is always a consideration when designing "public" transportation systems, what promises of accessibility could uber possibly make about cars that they don't own?

Putting in the infrastructure early is always easier than retrofitting.... uber is just a "cheap" way out of our current situation that is going to cost us the future of our public transportation system. By the time the town outgrows this stop-gap solution, it is going to cost us multiple times as much to put in the infrastructure that we should be investing in today.

I live in Innisfil, what can I say.... Mayor Gord Wauchope is totally out of touch with his community. This is a horrible solution to the town needing to invest in public transit. At the end of this little experiment, our monies that are currently allocated to "public transit" will be depleted and we won't have anything to show for it.

Another reader points out that when we get up to $5 for a ride, that is expensive compared to public transportation, and they're not wrong. The distances that most residents will be traveling, nobody is ever going to see a fare as cheap as $3.

But hey, we're used to poor decisions here in Innisfil. This year (almost in opposition to our provincial leadership which announced 18% cuts to electrical rates) our local power utility has announced their intention in INCREASE our electrical rates by almost 12%.

heh, I just about fell off my chair laughing when i read that one..... i even had to set up an account so i could reply. Ahh good ol' M$. the quote that got me was "and Microsoft has stated repeatedly that it does not lie or cheat or mislead." what more can i say? I mean microsoft has NEVER led me astray have they?

..... but then if you believe that then you really should go on believing microsoft is right.

Long live open source!