Just my 2cents: the FSF is open for supporters :) All it takes is to became an FSF Associate member.

I may have misunderstood the "snap" technology, but to me it seems that the snap package supplier will have to repackage the whole package to upgrade even one faulty library.

One example being Philips TV or BluRay built on Linux. When asked for source code, it is provided, but there are no way to ensure that the source code is for the device, because the provided binaries are encrypted and signed.

This is, what could be called incorrectly referenced reference frame :) Our reference frame is special, because this is the reference frame we observe things. Why should we choose any other reference frame from multitude of infinite? And in our reference frame the supernova happened about 64 000 000 years ago. I do not understand the confusion here. I could understand the statements though if the person talking does not have insight into special theory of relativity...

MBR is 512bytes long. Have you looked inside of it? I wrote a hack some 20 years ago to enable multiboot for MS-DOS and AT&T UNIX, not with the orthodox menu, but just a text saying "Press D or U" and waiting for the keypress. As I recall, it was a very close shave. I think I used up every single byte of the given 512 minus the partition table after trying several combinations. You are right - MBR allows for infinite number of partitions (space-permitting), and space permits no more than four. Logical partitions are a different story and are described elsewhere, not in the MBR.

Someone has to register the "Almighty Filesharer" polytheistic religion in Ireland. They might worship gods named BitTorrent, aMule (also known as eMule - god is known to walk with many names), Limewire, etc. Worshipers everyday mantra should be: "Information wants to be free! **** *** MAFIAA!". Lets see who is blasphemous enough to criticize them!

If, my friend, we hadn't have the quantum mechanical phenomena, do you think that we could calculate our behaviour to the end of universe? No! That's why the Chaos Theory is made. We live in nonlinear world and for nonlinear systems one has to have infinitely precise computer. Because otherwice the calculation will very soon deviate prominently from reality (think about weather forecasts, if we would have tenfold the computation power we have now for forecasting the weather, we could maybe achieve only an additional hour more or less accurate forecast). We all would know that our lives are predetermined, but it would not be possible to know ahead what we would do!