Or you could just ride the trolley bus running on overhead electric wires in the city, and intercity electric trains, just like your great grandparents did back in the 1920s. What, you're too lazy to walk to the corner of your street to board a bus, and transfer between routes that will take you 2 hrs to get to your destination when you could do it in 40 minutes by driving your own car?
Yeah but Leonardo's Workshop would have upgraded them all to freight, unless you invented the automobile? How does that make sense? Anyway, look around you, all the freight you see, we got no shortage of them.
Or you can use a semi-transparent, semireflective, or variable angle fresnel lens umrella thing, where everyone on Earth gets equal treatment on Earth, to be fair. Of course it should eb done by the UN and not a single country. Anthing like multiple slow satellites with turnable reflectors orbiting Earth to provide light for the polar nights may be too much interference with the environmental equilibrium, and so is cutting "light" or hi freq radiation from the Sun that plants live on to compensate for the extra IR or lo freq that CO2 reflects, that might be too much interference, but what else are you gonna do? Tell people to stop fucking? Or stop eating, driving and heating their homes? Yeah, like that's gonna work.
As long as we're talking about the topic of "Linux infringing on MS Intellectual property" we're on the right track. Loaded question, loaded topic, like "when did you stop beating your wife" implying many things. No matter how you argue, or what answer you give, you accept the premise of having beaten your wife.
From all the details given here, and the advice flying around, I think that da man must be really bored these days, because he wants an actual nuclear incident to happen, because that gives him a great means of control by keep ing the population in fear. Ever since the cold war is over, where da same man could control people on both side of the fence by keeping them in fear from the other side, ever since that's over he's in desperate need of a new fear to provide everyone. It's like with antiviruses, that's super big business, everyone runs them. I have never run antivirus on my computer, I just don't need it, in case something goes wrong, I just wipe and reinstall, instead of putting a stupid backdoor on my computer letting the man snoop around where I even pay him to let him snoop around with a monthly subscription to get the latest virus fingerprints. No thank you. Windows update? No thank you. Redhat-update? Yum? Apt-get? No thank you - let me work out the dependencies by manually downloading each deb and rpm - and let me tell you, it's a joke how far they complicate the dependencies. What would happen to the antivirus cashcow and backdoor if there were no viruses? How would you extract money from millions of people then and monitor every breath they take, making sure they don't misbreathe, or complain about new oppressive measures you're instituting over them? What happens to da man claiming "safety" and "counterterrorism"arguments while stripsearching everyone when there are never any terrorist events? He needs and example, and needs it badly, so he can oppress you better.
When I saw that, (legal), i was like, first of all it's suggesting that other linux is illegal, plus of course it's legal because Oracle has money. It doesn't matter what you do, whether it's legal or not depends on whether you can back it up with lawyers or weapons. What a nice world we live in.
If you want to combat global warming by getting less sunlight on Earth, I'd much prefer the NASA way where they'd put a variable size dark disk in orbit at a Lagrange point between the Earth/Sun, because you can always click "undo" on that, or just tell it to shrink the umbrella to nothing realtime. Injecting more crap into our atmosphere will just make things more complicated, and taking the stuff back out is not at simple, let alone getting realtime control on the effects.
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Da man doesn't want to solve the energy problem, because it's a great racist tool for him to help his own family and keep a brother that's not part of his family down, saying "it can't be done, because there isn't enough energy." Not enough food, not enough resources, not enough means to fixing problems, which are great tools of oppression to manipulate to his own advantage.
60% of our DNA is shared with bananas? It must be those porn queens messing around with bananas all the time.... What about, say, watermelons or, I don't know, cactuses? I bet you anything we share a lot less DNA with those than with bananas!
I don't think it degrades her in the eyes of millions and herself. True that most societies that survived have evolved complex taboo systems (except ones where the connection hasn't been made between sex and children being born), and there must be a reason for that, because of children, but to think where you would be if yo momma was never a whore? Something is sacred about the whole thing, and taboo at the same time especially when it comes to kids not past puberty/maturity where such things disturb them hormonally/emotionally/developmentally a lot. But as far as adults go, it's only healthy to be a pervert. For one, the shakers figured out how to live without ever being sluts, except they don't exist today. Everybody who is today is an end result of somebody else doing something "nastay." Ewww? Not eww, that's the stuff life is made of. Religions/cultural taboos do interfere, but more as a balancing act, because with too much porn there is a larger danger of overpopulation, and there are places on earth where overpopulation is still a big issue even in face of taboos. But porn teaches people for a quality life, generates more overall happiness in people's lives, as opposed to completely uneducated suppressed people, or even sex-ed-d people you just don't get the teachings of art in a sex ed class you get from real porn.
I browse with mozilla, edit/preferences/privacy-security/cookies/accept cookies for current session only, and everytime I close the browser all the cookies are purged.. Have to use password manager to store a lot of nonsensitive passwords like slashdot - I always take the time to manually type important ones like webmail/ebay/financial stuff, problem is I forget passwords and I lost access to like my ebay account because I haven't logged in for like 2 years for a while, then when I needed to do some business there, I forgot the password. Bleh.. I had an account from way back in 96 and a total shopping feedback of like 5 over 8 years, and lost it all. Now I have only 2 feedbacks, it's gonna take me another decade to get back to my previous rating!
Soon the "Internet" won't support linux. I already keep getting complaints from my bank that my browser is not up to date, which it isnt - mozilla-1.8b1, I don't like Firefox, not feature rich enough, and Seamonkey is a downgrade in features/stability, plus it's not even supported, unlike Firefox. Yahoo video complains that I need flash 9 or 8 to play its videos, and if you go to the macromedia/adobe site, the latest version for linux was guess what? version 7. Then they recently decided to release version 9 beta for linux, but this whole flash ordeal leaves me with a sour taste in my mouth because what's to stop them from pulling this same trick again, on flash version 19? Linux programmers can't keep up with the hidden/nonopen/patented/0wned/p4wned specs of Flash, they can't implement it, plus it's getting overly complicated to keep up with it anyway - what's to keep a company from jerking a spec all over the place and everybody try to keep up? - which means they just need the market share first, like jpeg, gif and mp3 did it, then come and sue everybody over the submarine patents/intellectual property. Yeah, the mp3 and jpeg fees are small, but what's to stop them from armwrestling you into a ludicrous "nonsmall" fee? Flash is a way of hijacking the web, this relatively free and open resource we call the Internet, everybody is vying to 0wn it and make everybody into pay-per-click-p4wns. Whoever can accomplish that, 0wning the internet by hijacking the underlying technology, will be able to blackmail anyone into anything. The Internet is a pretty tasty unowned territory that if you can stick a pole down and claim it under homesteading rules, it's all yours and everybody else is a tenant. I for one don't welcome our proprietary flashpushing overlords, and I'd like to point out that I try to live my life without flash, including nullflashplugin up until youtube came around, and even now I try to resist youtube temptations as much as I can, because youtube could just do fine with some more open mpeg1 type inline media format, or something better, like png replacing jpg that even the holy grail of all nonfree ip stuff, MS decided to use while the gif patents were still active, and they are still using png even today. I find it interesting that there wasn't an attempt to supplant png with something even more embrace-extend-msized image format that'd be pushed all over the web, like wmv is pushed against other media formats. Ms still only got the bitmap as their standard "own" microsoft bmp format, I just can't wait til the days of extended microsoft png, microsoft jpeg, and microsoft mp3 formats show up, of course not compatible with the standard specs because of extended functionality/feature upgrades. Why don't they do that? I mean when the beast does nasty behavior, and you expect it, you cry foul, but you're not suprised or scared, because you know what's going on and happenings fit well into your predictions and worldview, into how you understand things are, but when it acts unpredictably and uncharacteristically, you get very very scared that you can't keep up with what's going on, the pieces of the puzzle don't fit together in your head, and you don't understand thing and lose predicting power. Aha, it's all a mindgame! Throwing support behind linux? Oh my, now I'm really confused.. what the heck is going on?
A permanent tornado going up a turbine tower installed could be tamed and turned into a neat way to harness solar energy. You can't directly do that down here on Earth, because there are no permanent tornados, but it might be an interesting idea to try to make a permanent tornado somwhere in the middle of the Sahara, with a solar tower collector even. Of course the danger or mirrors getting misaligned and cooking up Cairo or Lagos, or even Rome have to be taken into consideration, and a SCRAM needs to be implemented that without a constant signal received from a station down on sahara saying I'm getting the light okay relative to that sensor out of the circle, the mirrors should go pitch black. I don't think LCD's can withstand space radiation enough to instantly flip off mirroring properties. How do you make a mirror go instantly nonmirror? Is mechanical shutters the simplest answer? A solar-tower coupled greenhouse made of molten mars-rock-glass might actually help in keeping things warm if the central tower is shut, or cool but a lot of energy tapped by allowing the turbines to spin.
It could be a means of saving life on ours. It's called diversifying your portfolio instead of putting all your eggs in one basket. Mars could be a second basket to keep some eggs in. If either goes under, life from the other one can "come back to life a dead planet."
To filter out UV and higher frequency things, like our ozone layer does, just use a prizm, or better, a diffraction grating (like a cd), but then you'd end up with a rainbow down on the surface - in some parts everything would be bright red, in some others, bright blue, etc. You'd have to rehomogenize it by sending it through a second prism or diffraction grating, which makes things complicated, especially if a meteor hits and things get misaligned. I guess they should just use TiO2 coatings on mirrors that are transparent in visible but very dark in UV (don't know xray region), to act like a mirror coating ozone layer. But because a lot of UV would be absorbed where rutile coatings are black, it would heat the mirrors a lot, as opposed to purely reflecting mirrors.
That's why we sent Laika, the first animal ever sent to space, to orbit around Earth in Sputnik II, on 3rd of November, 1957. Whatever happened to him, happens to human animals too. If he succesfully made it through Van Allen radiation belts, so could humans too. All it takes is a shielded elevator cabin mimicking at least the basics of what was shielding Laika. I propose if and when we get a space elevator, we sent Laika's great-great-great-....-great grandkid to commemorate the occasion, and call him Laika the MXXIV.
I saw a sci fi movie once, forgot the title, where people developed machines to do the border fighting for them, and then unbeknownst they allowed the machines to do some of the designing, and after the planet was semi abandoned, the machines kept designing themselves. Initial versions were sandcrawling things, then 2nd generation more sophisticated ones were little 5 year old girls asking for help and crying to take them with you into your base where they would detonate, then the 3rd generation most advanced versions were actually undiscernible from people, behaved like people, and ended up managers and bosses in the human outposts left behind - the female version was quite hot. Scary as hell.
I've seen a similar thing in an electronics repair shop, where there'd be a cd and you typed in the model number of a tv, vcr, stereo, what not, and it would list the typical symptoms that others have sent in - such as check diode D129, or capacitor near the power supply is prone to be defective - and oftentime just stepping through these things listed would yield the answer to a problem. If they found something new not listed in the answers, it was a good idea to send it back to the cd distributor, after all that's how everybody benefited in the first place, from cooperation. You didn't get paid for the info you sent back, but after all, if they paid for it, everyone might be sending scam answers to get paid. At least if you make the effort for free, one hopes that you don't send bad info. Sometimes the information you give voluntarily and freely is a lot better quality than where you get paid, or feel like you are forced to say something even when you really have nothing to say.
A lot. We have 9/11 because of these statistics: http://geohive.com/charts/en_oilres.aspx. Let the numbers speak for themselves. Guess which countries will the axis of evil be dotted through? Anyway, the bear goes to the honey pot and terrorist bees sting him. What else is new?
I have an Athlong XP 2500 Barton of 1.8 GHz, and I downclocked the whole thing to 1.1 GHz to save electricity costs. It's still more than fast enough for what I need - Knoppix-3.6/KDE with Mozilla 1.8b and Win2K SP2. The newer versions of Knoppix and Windows don't impress me much. As a downclocked version of a.13u CPU this Athlon is a better power saver than the old cpu's with similar GHz.
Well might as well awaken that sleeping giant in Redmond and everywhere else, because commercial software producer's answer should not be ok, we toss our support behind the competition, but coming up with something better that gives the customer what they want instead of just squatting more of the customer's freedoms and money away without giving them anything in exchange, and then wonder why the customers are disgruntled. If they lower expectations of profit margin to a commodity level, and listen to customer's needs instead of internal needs to gain yet even more dominance and control over the customers, then there should be a very big chunk of the market that will steadily opt for commercial software that could coexist in fine balance with noncommercial. Unfortunately it's hard for monopolies to self regulate when they are used to going around and getting their way anywhere, as opposed to a true free market competition world, where the customer voting with his dollar is the boss instead of the bitch who ain't got no choice but bend over and grab the ankles.
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Or you could just ride the trolley bus running on overhead electric wires in the city, and intercity electric trains, just like your great grandparents did back in the 1920s. What, you're too lazy to walk to the corner of your street to board a bus, and transfer between routes that will take you 2 hrs to get to your destination when you could do it in 40 minutes by driving your own car?
Yeah but Leonardo's Workshop would have upgraded them all to freight, unless you invented the automobile? How does that make sense? Anyway, look around you, all the freight you see, we got no shortage of them.
Or you can use a semi-transparent, semireflective, or variable angle fresnel lens umrella thing, where everyone on Earth gets equal treatment on Earth, to be fair. Of course it should eb done by the UN and not a single country. Anthing like multiple slow satellites with turnable reflectors orbiting Earth to provide light for the polar nights may be too much interference with the environmental equilibrium, and so is cutting "light" or hi freq radiation from the Sun that plants live on to compensate for the extra IR or lo freq that CO2 reflects, that might be too much interference, but what else are you gonna do? Tell people to stop fucking? Or stop eating, driving and heating their homes? Yeah, like that's gonna work.
What else is new...
The problem is public education! Home schooling and private schools are the answer!
As long as we're talking about the topic of "Linux infringing on MS Intellectual property" we're on the right track. Loaded question, loaded topic, like "when did you stop beating your wife" implying many things. No matter how you argue, or what answer you give, you accept the premise of having beaten your wife.
From all the details given here, and the advice flying around, I think that da man must be really bored these days, because he wants an actual nuclear incident to happen, because that gives him a great means of control by keep ing the population in fear. Ever since the cold war is over, where da same man could control people on both side of the fence by keeping them in fear from the other side, ever since that's over he's in desperate need of a new fear to provide everyone. It's like with antiviruses, that's super big business, everyone runs them. I have never run antivirus on my computer, I just don't need it, in case something goes wrong, I just wipe and reinstall, instead of putting a stupid backdoor on my computer letting the man snoop around where I even pay him to let him snoop around with a monthly subscription to get the latest virus fingerprints. No thank you. Windows update? No thank you. Redhat-update? Yum? Apt-get? No thank you - let me work out the dependencies by manually downloading each deb and rpm - and let me tell you, it's a joke how far they complicate the dependencies. What would happen to the antivirus cashcow and backdoor if there were no viruses? How would you extract money from millions of people then and monitor every breath they take, making sure they don't misbreathe, or complain about new oppressive measures you're instituting over them? What happens to da man claiming "safety" and "counterterrorism"arguments while stripsearching everyone when there are never any terrorist events? He needs and example, and needs it badly, so he can oppress you better.
When I saw that, (legal), i was like, first of all it's suggesting that other linux is illegal, plus of course it's legal because Oracle has money. It doesn't matter what you do, whether it's legal or not depends on whether you can back it up with lawyers or weapons. What a nice world we live in.
If you want to combat global warming by getting less sunlight on Earth, I'd much prefer the NASA way where they'd put a variable size dark disk in orbit at a Lagrange point between the Earth/Sun, because you can always click "undo" on that, or just tell it to shrink the umbrella to nothing realtime. Injecting more crap into our atmosphere will just make things more complicated, and taking the stuff back out is not at simple, let alone getting realtime control on the effects.
Da man doesn't want to solve the energy problem, because it's a great racist tool for him to help his own family and keep a brother that's not part of his family down, saying "it can't be done, because there isn't enough energy." Not enough food, not enough resources, not enough means to fixing problems, which are great tools of oppression to manipulate to his own advantage.
60% of our DNA is shared with bananas? It must be those porn queens messing around with bananas all the time .... What about, say, watermelons or, I don't know, cactuses? I bet you anything we share a lot less DNA with those than with bananas!
I don't think it degrades her in the eyes of millions and herself. True that most societies that survived have evolved complex taboo systems (except ones where the connection hasn't been made between sex and children being born), and there must be a reason for that, because of children, but to think where you would be if yo momma was never a whore? Something is sacred about the whole thing, and taboo at the same time especially when it comes to kids not past puberty/maturity where such things disturb them hormonally/emotionally/developmentally a lot. But as far as adults go, it's only healthy to be a pervert. For one, the shakers figured out how to live without ever being sluts, except they don't exist today. Everybody who is today is an end result of somebody else doing something "nastay." Ewww? Not eww, that's the stuff life is made of. Religions/cultural taboos do interfere, but more as a balancing act, because with too much porn there is a larger danger of overpopulation, and there are places on earth where overpopulation is still a big issue even in face of taboos. But porn teaches people for a quality life, generates more overall happiness in people's lives, as opposed to completely uneducated suppressed people, or even sex-ed-d people you just don't get the teachings of art in a sex ed class you get from real porn.
I browse with mozilla, edit/preferences/privacy-security/cookies/accept cookies for current session only, and everytime I close the browser all the cookies are purged.. Have to use password manager to store a lot of nonsensitive passwords like slashdot - I always take the time to manually type important ones like webmail/ebay/financial stuff, problem is I forget passwords and I lost access to like my ebay account because I haven't logged in for like 2 years for a while, then when I needed to do some business there, I forgot the password. Bleh.. I had an account from way back in 96 and a total shopping feedback of like 5 over 8 years, and lost it all. Now I have only 2 feedbacks, it's gonna take me another decade to get back to my previous rating!
Soon the "Internet" won't support linux. I already keep getting complaints from my bank that my browser is not up to date, which it isnt - mozilla-1.8b1, I don't like Firefox, not feature rich enough, and Seamonkey is a downgrade in features/stability, plus it's not even supported, unlike Firefox. Yahoo video complains that I need flash 9 or 8 to play its videos, and if you go to the macromedia/adobe site, the latest version for linux was guess what? version 7. Then they recently decided to release version 9 beta for linux, but this whole flash ordeal leaves me with a sour taste in my mouth because what's to stop them from pulling this same trick again, on flash version 19? Linux programmers can't keep up with the hidden/nonopen/patented/0wned/p4wned specs of Flash, they can't implement it, plus it's getting overly complicated to keep up with it anyway - what's to keep a company from jerking a spec all over the place and everybody try to keep up? - which means they just need the market share first, like jpeg, gif and mp3 did it, then come and sue everybody over the submarine patents/intellectual property. Yeah, the mp3 and jpeg fees are small, but what's to stop them from armwrestling you into a ludicrous "nonsmall" fee? Flash is a way of hijacking the web, this relatively free and open resource we call the Internet, everybody is vying to 0wn it and make everybody into pay-per-click-p4wns. Whoever can accomplish that, 0wning the internet by hijacking the underlying technology, will be able to blackmail anyone into anything. The Internet is a pretty tasty unowned territory that if you can stick a pole down and claim it under homesteading rules, it's all yours and everybody else is a tenant. I for one don't welcome our proprietary flashpushing overlords, and I'd like to point out that I try to live my life without flash, including nullflashplugin up until youtube came around, and even now I try to resist youtube temptations as much as I can, because youtube could just do fine with some more open mpeg1 type inline media format, or something better, like png replacing jpg that even the holy grail of all nonfree ip stuff, MS decided to use while the gif patents were still active, and they are still using png even today. I find it interesting that there wasn't an attempt to supplant png with something even more embrace-extend-msized image format that'd be pushed all over the web, like wmv is pushed against other media formats. Ms still only got the bitmap as their standard "own" microsoft bmp format, I just can't wait til the days of extended microsoft png, microsoft jpeg, and microsoft mp3 formats show up, of course not compatible with the standard specs because of extended functionality/feature upgrades. Why don't they do that? I mean when the beast does nasty behavior, and you expect it, you cry foul, but you're not suprised or scared, because you know what's going on and happenings fit well into your predictions and worldview, into how you understand things are, but when it acts unpredictably and uncharacteristically, you get very very scared that you can't keep up with what's going on, the pieces of the puzzle don't fit together in your head, and you don't understand thing and lose predicting power. Aha, it's all a mindgame! Throwing support behind linux? Oh my, now I'm really confused.. what the heck is going on?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower
A permanent tornado going up a turbine tower installed could be tamed and turned into a neat way to harness solar energy. You can't directly do that down here on Earth, because there are no permanent tornados, but it might be an interesting idea to try to make a permanent tornado somwhere in the middle of the Sahara, with a solar tower collector even. Of course the danger or mirrors getting misaligned and cooking up Cairo or Lagos, or even Rome have to be taken into consideration, and a SCRAM needs to be implemented that without a constant signal received from a station down on sahara saying I'm getting the light okay relative to that sensor out of the circle, the mirrors should go pitch black. I don't think LCD's can withstand space radiation enough to instantly flip off mirroring properties. How do you make a mirror go instantly nonmirror? Is mechanical shutters the simplest answer? A solar-tower coupled greenhouse made of molten mars-rock-glass might actually help in keeping things warm if the central tower is shut, or cool but a lot of energy tapped by allowing the turbines to spin.
Actually, I should have RTFA first, because they say everything I just said, except of course for the rave thing...
It could be a means of saving life on ours. It's called diversifying your portfolio instead of putting all your eggs in one basket. Mars could be a second basket to keep some eggs in. If either goes under, life from the other one can "come back to life a dead planet."
To filter out UV and higher frequency things, like our ozone layer does, just use a prizm, or better, a diffraction grating (like a cd), but then you'd end up with a rainbow down on the surface - in some parts everything would be bright red, in some others, bright blue, etc. You'd have to rehomogenize it by sending it through a second prism or diffraction grating, which makes things complicated, especially if a meteor hits and things get misaligned. I guess they should just use TiO2 coatings on mirrors that are transparent in visible but very dark in UV (don't know xray region), to act like a mirror coating ozone layer. But because a lot of UV would be absorbed where rutile coatings are black, it would heat the mirrors a lot, as opposed to purely reflecting mirrors.
That's why we sent Laika, the first animal ever sent to space, to orbit around Earth in Sputnik II, on 3rd of November, 1957. Whatever happened to him, happens to human animals too. If he succesfully made it through Van Allen radiation belts, so could humans too. All it takes is a shielded elevator cabin mimicking at least the basics of what was shielding Laika. I propose if and when we get a space elevator, we sent Laika's great-great-great-....-great grandkid to commemorate the occasion, and call him Laika the MXXIV.
I saw a sci fi movie once, forgot the title, where people developed machines to do the border fighting for them, and then unbeknownst they allowed the machines to do some of the designing, and after the planet was semi abandoned, the machines kept designing themselves. Initial versions were sandcrawling things, then 2nd generation more sophisticated ones were little 5 year old girls asking for help and crying to take them with you into your base where they would detonate, then the 3rd generation most advanced versions were actually undiscernible from people, behaved like people, and ended up managers and bosses in the human outposts left behind - the female version was quite hot. Scary as hell.
I've seen a similar thing in an electronics repair shop, where there'd be a cd and you typed in the model number of a tv, vcr, stereo, what not, and it would list the typical symptoms that others have sent in - such as check diode D129, or capacitor near the power supply is prone to be defective - and oftentime just stepping through these things listed would yield the answer to a problem. If they found something new not listed in the answers, it was a good idea to send it back to the cd distributor, after all that's how everybody benefited in the first place, from cooperation. You didn't get paid for the info you sent back, but after all, if they paid for it, everyone might be sending scam answers to get paid. At least if you make the effort for free, one hopes that you don't send bad info. Sometimes the information you give voluntarily and freely is a lot better quality than where you get paid, or feel like you are forced to say something even when you really have nothing to say.
A lot. We have 9/11 because of these statistics: http://geohive.com/charts/en_oilres.aspx. Let the numbers speak for themselves. Guess which countries will the axis of evil be dotted through? Anyway, the bear goes to the honey pot and terrorist bees sting him. What else is new?
I have an Athlong XP 2500 Barton of 1.8 GHz, and I downclocked the whole thing to 1.1 GHz to save electricity costs. It's still more than fast enough for what I need - Knoppix-3.6/KDE with Mozilla 1.8b and Win2K SP2. The newer versions of Knoppix and Windows don't impress me much. As a downclocked version of a .13u CPU this Athlon is a better power saver than the old cpu's with similar GHz.
Well might as well awaken that sleeping giant in Redmond and everywhere else, because commercial software producer's answer should not be ok, we toss our support behind the competition, but coming up with something better that gives the customer what they want instead of just squatting more of the customer's freedoms and money away without giving them anything in exchange, and then wonder why the customers are disgruntled. If they lower expectations of profit margin to a commodity level, and listen to customer's needs instead of internal needs to gain yet even more dominance and control over the customers, then there should be a very big chunk of the market that will steadily opt for commercial software that could coexist in fine balance with noncommercial. Unfortunately it's hard for monopolies to self regulate when they are used to going around and getting their way anywhere, as opposed to a true free market competition world, where the customer voting with his dollar is the boss instead of the bitch who ain't got no choice but bend over and grab the ankles.