If I'm reading correctly, yes, eventually you could roll your own phone using completely open source stuff - hw and sw. What I'm less clear on is how the signal is being carried. Granted, I didn't read too in depth, but you still need a carrier to allow your phone on their network, no?

University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA, for all it's shortcomings, has a fantastic CS faculty - you are using gcc on HP-UX for your compiling, and you're gonna like it. Also, they support Linux. No questions asked - they make you install symantec if you're on a windows box, and they look at you a little funny if you're on OSX, but if you're on linux, you log in with your student log on, and go. Have I mentioned their professors actually teach C and Python because Java is the devil?

It's not being forced on employees. It's just a good deal - if you take the course, you get a full version of Windows 7 Ultimate for $10. If people actually drink the kool-aid, that's another problem entirely. Personally, I didn't even read the slides. Just went through and took the tests.

It's hard to get a message heard if you're an indie band, so why not let the corporations you're fighting do the work for you?

Last time I heard, shutting down the NYSE isn't exactly pro-business