During the cold war, it was the USA that feared the Soviets -- about the Soviet plans to spread black carbon powder all over the arctic, to achieve two goals:- 1. More land for Soviets that is livable and Cultivable. 2. Drown the major US cities.
Heck I still remember reading many news articles in our magazines, back in the 70s, that went on and on on this topic.

Or, it could just be a psychological shock to the ex-soviet think-tanks in Russia, who always believed Global Warming was nothing but beneficial for Russia ( and now it turns out its not).
When you undergo such shock, your mind does not need to be on drugs to come up with irrational thoughts.

Appalachian Cent(OS).
http://www.museumsusa.org/museums/info/1164138/

I mean, in the real world that I live & work in -- working on internal software projects...

It does not matter, how good a coder you are.
What matters is how well you "work with" the owner/manager, to address intangibles like "transitioning", "being a team player", "sticking to processes & best practices", "aligned with manager's priorities", "not being single-topic focussed", etc...

In the real world, there are the idea guys, who are invariably different from the implementation guys. Managers have no qualms with taking the idea-guy's idea, and asking someone else to implement it. Most of the time, this is because the idea guy's work ethic or reliability, is not up to snuff, in the estimation of the manager in charge.

Should I welcome the OSS world to the real-world?

Ahem.

Consider yourself fortunate that this is an even-number release from Microsoft.

For the next version, which my calculator says should be odd-numbered, you would be wise to refrain from opening your mouth or flexing your finger-muscles, in any attempt at Microsoft bashing.

That famous potrait of Obama, is him looking forward to the long-awaited Zune odd-version release.

Can someone please spare a few mod points for the parent, to bring it up to 5-Informative?

The period: 1990 - 1995.
Users loved the free-to-do-what-we-feel-like PCs, versus the locked down UNIX clients and mainframe terminals.
I was still young. And many (including yours truly) felt the older crowd didn't get the need for freedom over the desktop (as experienced by a user).
15 years or so later, the cycle is complete.
Or at least I think the cycle should be complete -- I am wondering why there are so few, who don't agree that the "lack" of lockdown capability is a problem in the first place.
Just like in those days, the companies that love locked-down environments will stay the tried-n-true, while the rest revel in the freedom. Let the users bring in tools that makes them more collaborative and productive.
FOSS does not get stronger by avoiding malware & viruses - it gets stronger cuz it tackles hackers and viruses head-on.

Hi, If you copy or move a file with Eclipse, you LOSE the entire history of that file.
Doing that is just a simple shortcut for the following sequence of actions:
1. "simple file copy" (like a "cp" command, or a drag-n-drop in desktop OSes).
2. DELETE the source. Yup!
3. Add the copy to the repository.
For some of us, keeping the history of every single change since 1-1-1970 is important. But that will be another thread.