Basically, you just don't get it. What drives Ubunbtu/Kubuntu is it's users not the marketing, but the users who like the product, like the motto, like the logo, and liked the friendly nature of the community and the forums.
Intelligent users who knew it order for Linux to get a boost one particular distribution needed to be promoted, and be given life in the public eye. A distribution that was neither to aggressive or controlling or tried to dominate/define Linux beyond of course being a community effort 'Humanity to others'.
So promoting Ubunbtu/Kubuntu is largely about promoting Linux, as for those other distributions who feel a bit disenfranchised at the moment, we are trying to make an ocean of Linux out of the current lake, one in which everybody can swim and play in, and for that to happen a distribution must reach out to the public and gain the public eye and seize their imagination, basically when you weren't paying any attention when one was chosen, Ubuntu - the 'chosen' distribution;).
No the real target is, low entry point cheap marketing is no excuse for not monitoring the quality of your marketing promotions.
Google greatly increases it's profit margin by not spending any where enough money upon ensuring the quality of their adds or the companies they are promoting or the products they are promoting adhere to requirements of mi minimum marketing standards.
SO they are tackling the largest and as a result most abusive of fair marketing principles, in cheap entry level marketing companies. As for the ACCC being visible in Australia, just ask the Banks, Oil Companies, Phone Companies, Internet Companies etc., they are very visible in Australia http://www.accc.gov.au/ and are not to be compared with near indivisible for profit versions in other countries.
Portability, hmm, synchronising your data across many portable and some fixed devices is what it is all about. The catch of course is that with IPv6 all your devices could talk directly to each other (and to any one else that you actually want to share information with) across the Internet without any privacy invasive freak prying into your life, your business or your family (who really wants streaming adds when talking and sharing with friends and family, especially ones based upon those private communications).
Low cost of hardware and free software, combined with high bandwidth and the end of the limits of IPv4 means that net services are a net fantasy, which company wants to make to greatest delusional claims whether in be Google and the googlites or M$ and Ballmer's flunkies, who cares, it just ain't gonna happen in any real way.
What else would you expect from advertising companies but yesterday's solutions for yesterday's problems loaded up with today's marketing for tomorrow's inflated share price and executive bonus (but the day after really sucks for the mug punters).
Well that's not a problem for the US President (US - un-suitable, un-satisfactory, un-sanitory), after all, he has a whole corrupt administration the pick up the bag for him when he takes some time off, so yeah, 24/7 the corruption continues;).
Nielsen are making an obvious adjustment because it takes time to read a page. Basically if you do a search on Ask, Live, Yahoo or even Google, you type in your search query, get a response and go to another site, you are not even looking at the whole page just the parts relevant to you. With Ask and live your vision gets stretched at little with alternate possible search queries, but with google you just get addwords dumped on the side (as long as you don,t use this http://www.customizegoogle.com/ in which case you never see any adds at all).
Spending more time on a page means, either you just got up to get a cup of coffee or you are in fact reading the whole page, and not just a couple of lines and going to another site. In terms of advertising, it is not that bad if you only see the add for a moment, as long as the same add is repeated, of course in that split second flash of a brand or product is blurred with hundreds of other addwords, you getting no advertising benefit unless of course you count the repeated phrase 'adds served by google'. So google adds are all about marketing google not the customers paying for the adds.
Nielsen is taking the correct perspective, just compare a video serving site like dailymotion to google, you might spending 45 minutes on the video site with the background adds held in your focus compared to 10 to 15 seconds on a search site (especially when you original query is typed into the search bar and not on the search web site).
You are right about search just being a utlity, and tool that you just use and forget and pretty much the same for the add content that is being served up, but that is nielsen's point, and as as a portal google is very much way, way behind most net companies. So yeah google will really hate this and try to convince everybody it just ain't true, real fingers in the ears la-la-la stuff. As a portal google has a lot of work to do.
Wrong country idiot. All my neighbours are insured by the government. I can have fair trade if your greedy and I'm not, I tell you to GGF and trade with some else who will also trade fair.
Speaking of updates, as distributing a computer virus is a criminal act, should not governments be maintaining virus registers and make the available to the public, so that the public can protect their machines.
However, there really is a problem in the definition of what is and is not the public obtaining of a connection. Really for an ADSL enabled phone line, your obtaining a connection is the original connection between your modem and the ISP that you choose, all data transmitted there after constitute part of the electronic transmission that represent the communications between you and your ISP, so they a really wire tapping the communications between you and your ISP whether it be a hard copy printed log (no different to a written transcript of a conversation), or a digital file (no different to a analogue voice recording).
As for the email, well I suppose if they were allowed to enter post offices and record all the address details of all the post going through the system, and where no return address was on the back of the envelope, open the envelope in order to try to ascertain the return address, what you say that is not legal, hmm. So for email, fine, legally you send it to your ISP (your ISP is the from address) and they send it to the recipients ISP (that ISP being to the address), the receiving ISP 'opens' the electronic transmission comprising the email to ascertain to whom it needs to be forwarded and does an automated non-invasive check for spam or viruses.
The whole thing is just so stupid, consider this, if a person who might commit a crime, suddenly finds out they are under scrutiny by law enforcement, they will very likely cease the criminal conspiratorial activities, hence no crime is committed, and no additional tax dollars are diverted prosecuting and imprisoning someone, everybody wins. Unless this is some crazy scheme to watch all of us criminals all of the time, basically anybody to poor to afford privacy (anybody not a member of the upper class, the political class or senior representatives of the military/law enforcement classes and of course their families) should not be legally entitled to any.
Do you know that it is also a criminal offence to send out a bill when you are not entitled to a payment, it is called fraud. Perhaps in those various organisations were tackled in court for falsely sending out demands for payment it might restrain them a bit.
What would be interesting is to see them get audited and see how much they support themselves rather than the composers, and if RIAA members own the composing rights after having contracted them off the artists, isn't really just the slimy RIAA operating in the background and driving the others like a puppet.
I would not be suprised if RIAA members where the ones getting by far the bulk of the money from the so called composer representing organisations. I really really see a classical music revival coming on.
How about suing a city that allows buskers. After all the buskers improve the ambience in the city, bringing in more shoppers, increasing the revenue of shops, which improves property values which of course raises council/city rates.
Hence any city that allows buskers owes ASCAP money, and back fees and interest.
Perhaps if the Internet had been around for the last century, engineers might have been able to avoid some of the 'engineered failures', bridges collapsing, ships sinking, telescopes that don't work etc etc etc. For floating wind turbines the biggest problem will be insurance, combinant forces of wind and wave in extreme conditions will mean high mass over engineered blades.
A segmented rotary blade design would likely be much safer and allows for wave energy to be collected, which provides a shock absorbing quality, just with a simple counter weighted tether.
Public is not a page buried in a web site. Public is just the same as the way they advertised no faults, in newspapers, on the radio and on the TV, a full retraction.
At the end of the day, a guard is a pretty poorly paid job. I would think it would be cheaper to pay guards than buy bots and pay the insurance on those bots.
A hackers dream, hacking a guard bot, would it be an inside job if a electronic guard bot stuns every body and robs the place. As for restraining people, yeah, set off a smoke detector and the bot has to let you go or else in the event of a fire you could get roasted innocent victims.
Now I wonder who will be guaranteeing the quality of the software for those bots, who is going to take the great leap of faith in their virus free, bug free, secure against hackers software, or who will be stupid enough to use software that does not have a proper warranty.
Greed is not the heart of a capitalist society, fair trade is, greed is just what is always has been, an emotion of the selfish and loathsome. Modern marketing is just desperately trying to repaint the rich and greedy in our society as something other than a burdensome drain upon it's resources.
Save your lies about greed being some kind of virtue, I cant think of any society through out history, that has attempted that outside of 20th century mass media marketing.
For me health care is something I don't want to think about, something I have not interest in pursuing a trial and error approach whilst chasing the cheapest price. I want healthy and happy neighbours, I want neighbours who when they get sick the only thing they think about is getting well, not whether they can afford it or whether their budget health insurance will pay. A more worry free society is worth the additional tax.
I would be wrong to say that M$ acknowledged the problem, it is far more correct to say they recanted on the lies they have been telling about the xbox360 since it's release including false advertising for which they should be held accountable. Together with the warranty should be a public apology to all the customers who suffered problems, who were lied too and whose problems were not fixed.
All of this for what was a basic design flaw by some idiot trying to shave cents of a unit they stupidly enough has to survive for a long as possible to allow as many games as possible to be sold for it on a per unit basis.
M$=B$ statistics, total number of units shipped includes warranty replacements, per unit game sales excludes warranty replacements.
It is also a two way argument, under which license you choose to contribute or under which license they choose to accept your contribution.
In reality the second argument is the real defining one, they who host the 'key or defining' open source package choose under what conditions they will accept your code.
You of course choose whether your code goes to a wider audience or disappears into obscurity.
As for M$ statement it is just stupidly childish. Making that statement is utterly meaningless, if they use any GPLv3 code they are bound by GPLv3. As for the even sillier point of saying no matter what Novell write into their support certificates, M$ will interpret the language in Novell certificate in their own version of microspeak english and ignore directions from Novell is just so contrary.
In publishing the statement, M$ just makes it look like it is at the beck and call of the OSS foundation, they talk and M$ jumps. No other software company has bothered with this kind of statement, talk about losing the plot. Whom ever authorized this statement had better sober up before authorizing any more.
No, what they are really saying is you cant you open source, because you must used a closed proprietary source and force everybody to pay a license fee that will amount to hundreds of millions of dollars over the years to a company who will 'contribute' the right amount of money to the people who will decide which patented copyrighted protocol everybody else will be forced to use.
Not to be too picky, but I would hardly call a hard disk searching utility middleware. M$ truly sucks sometimes but google's privacy invasive is truly up there with the windrones.
Perhaps at a stretch you might call software that analyses the contents of files, a users file search patterns, or software that creates a consumer profile of a person based upon the personal contents of the hard disk drive (and distributes it over the internet), might be called marketing middle ware but it is also pretty sucky software.
So a question might be is whether M$ HDisk search utlity is doing this, and is marketing middle ware or is M$ HDisk just an OS utlity extension that provides HDisk search services only.
Now let's consider the poor pervert who feels the need go through other people personal life, obviously because they have no real identity of their own, and that little surge of power they feel when they can invade some one else's life obviously fills an enormous void of insignificance that is their own life.
Don't be angry at the pathetic, ineffectual, insignificant, empty, losers, feel sorrow for them, feel pity for them, they are the nothings of society, fit only for hiding in the shadows and prying upon other people lives.
Perhaps they have just not found their true calling in life amongst the ranks of the NSA or the CIA, where the elite perverts, the best of the worst, go to pry into the lives of thousands, even millions of people all over the world. Just consider the illegal wire tapping, now every agent, analyst etc. who was aware of or participated in that criminal act, is also guilty of committing a crime, obeying an illegal order is no legal excuse for breaking the law.
You forget the part in copyright that refers to, or their agents. As the RIAA is an agent of the copyright holders and in the the fake distributors are agents of the RIAA, the it is the agents of the copyright holders who a legally distributing no longer copyrighted works.
Now of course the criminal action they will have been likely to commit is invading the privacy of 'minors', which is of course where child molester comes from.
Also where children where using the parents computer and the RIAA agents failed to ensure that the person entering the contract was legally entitled to enter the contract, that failure of jurisprudence results in criminal trespass and technology crimes with regards to hacking computer networks.
There is also the question of fraudulent misrepresentation as well as entrapment. These people really need to feel the full weight and measure of the law, a few years cooling the heels in jail, should wake them up to the fact that they are not above the law.
I think you fail to take into account the arrogance of corporations, especially marketing companies like google. You have got marketdroid types who think they control public opinion, every body else is stupid and only they are smart because they think they can get us to believe any lies they want to tell.
Google is just showing itself to be more and more the company that for marketing purposes it is pretending not to be, I wonder how many of his private details that fellow in Germany would be willing to hand over to google now.
Gnome had better watch out, their predilection for the letter 'G' makes them a definite target for future legal hostilities.
No amount of explaining to those who are driven by greed will alter their opinion one iota, unless of course you can demonstrate the opportunity for greater profit for them. Trying to explain to them, that the major impact of universal health care is the reduction of overall stress and pressure felt in a society and that the reduction of stress makes for a much friendlier, happier and in turn healthier society.
The significant reduction of fear of failure and the impact that fiscal failure (through no fault of your own) can have on your families ability to obtain health care has no real meaning to greed based individuals, their family is just for show, something that is expected from their peer group and for those greed driven individuals something that can be readily sacrificed for greater personal returns, let alone other peoples families who are just something to be exploited.
For them being able to produce a drug life saving drug for $1.00 and sell it for $1000.00 is fantastic, and preferably the drug should not cure the disease but just limit the symptoms, so they can continue to sell it to the desperately ill. So that is the way they want to run their health care system, lots of desperate people, with life threatening diseases, to keep the health insurance, pharmaceutical industry and private hospitals running at maximum profit.
As for Australia, the current Liberal party ran surveys to see how much the general public would protest if they dropped universal health care, the only thing that stopped them from getting rid of universal health and letting the US health parasites take over was they discovered that the response would be very aggressive mass protests by the majority of Australians and they would end up out of office for at least 3 election cycles.
The point about identifying the IP address, is that they never ever identify the person, the user or the individual. That requires considerable evidence, like a video of the person using the device, that is singularly identified as being connected to the network (requires an additional implanted device), and is currently using the non permanent IP address, at the specific defined times, add to that the device should be obtained as soon as possible after that evidence is obtained to ensure no tampering with evidence (one way or the other).
Making space, making space, it is all about making space. Open source as an open contributory system reflects the wider community, new fesh blood needs room to work and play, whether they happen to be young or old in terms of years, they are just new at that particular community development project.
Fresh thoughts and fresh minds, those who have been at it for a fair while can sence the eagerness of the newcomers and know they need to shift the contribution to areas where their experience will be of greater import, whilst the agile and quick coding minds can contribute most effectively at the code the more experienced can hone that contribution to a fine art.
A big thing about open open source is publicly demonstrating your coding skills to a peer review audience, as such, that opportunity must be maintained so the upcoming coders can gain the reputation and gain access to a highly rewarding career for those with the best skills. You really do want to avoid old timers hogging all the open coding limelight, but you certainly don't want to lose their experience and in the open source world, their genuine integrity and pride in workmanship.
Well as long as long as you don't shine the beacon of freedom and democracy over a particular Cuban bay, or on the NSA and it's wire tapping, or on secret no fly lists, or on torturing protesters (shooting, gassing, beating up, or trampling with horses, peaceful democratic citizens), or on one rule for them and another special one for us.
The rumour is the biggest reason they don't want to shut down Gitmo, is because they don't want to release into the general public what they have created, a group of depraved, sexually distorted, homicidally violent, mentally disturbed, sadomasochistic individuals, who take pride and pleasure in the inflection of pain and suffering upon other human beings, and were talking the about the guards, not their innocent victims.
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Intelligent users who knew it order for Linux to get a boost one particular distribution needed to be promoted, and be given life in the public eye. A distribution that was neither to aggressive or controlling or tried to dominate/define Linux beyond of course being a community effort 'Humanity to others'.
So promoting Ubunbtu/Kubuntu is largely about promoting Linux, as for those other distributions who feel a bit disenfranchised at the moment, we are trying to make an ocean of Linux out of the current lake, one in which everybody can swim and play in, and for that to happen a distribution must reach out to the public and gain the public eye and seize their imagination, basically when you weren't paying any attention when one was chosen, Ubuntu - the 'chosen' distribution ;).
Google greatly increases it's profit margin by not spending any where enough money upon ensuring the quality of their adds or the companies they are promoting or the products they are promoting adhere to requirements of mi minimum marketing standards.
SO they are tackling the largest and as a result most abusive of fair marketing principles, in cheap entry level marketing companies. As for the ACCC being visible in Australia, just ask the Banks, Oil Companies, Phone Companies, Internet Companies etc., they are very visible in Australia http://www.accc.gov.au/ and are not to be compared with near indivisible for profit versions in other countries.
Low cost of hardware and free software, combined with high bandwidth and the end of the limits of IPv4 means that net services are a net fantasy, which company wants to make to greatest delusional claims whether in be Google and the googlites or M$ and Ballmer's flunkies, who cares, it just ain't gonna happen in any real way.
What else would you expect from advertising companies but yesterday's solutions for yesterday's problems loaded up with today's marketing for tomorrow's inflated share price and executive bonus (but the day after really sucks for the mug punters).
Well that's not a problem for the US President (US - un-suitable, un-satisfactory, un-sanitory), after all, he has a whole corrupt administration the pick up the bag for him when he takes some time off, so yeah, 24/7 the corruption continues ;).
Spending more time on a page means, either you just got up to get a cup of coffee or you are in fact reading the whole page, and not just a couple of lines and going to another site. In terms of advertising, it is not that bad if you only see the add for a moment, as long as the same add is repeated, of course in that split second flash of a brand or product is blurred with hundreds of other addwords, you getting no advertising benefit unless of course you count the repeated phrase 'adds served by google'. So google adds are all about marketing google not the customers paying for the adds.
Nielsen is taking the correct perspective, just compare a video serving site like dailymotion to google, you might spending 45 minutes on the video site with the background adds held in your focus compared to 10 to 15 seconds on a search site (especially when you original query is typed into the search bar and not on the search web site).
You are right about search just being a utlity, and tool that you just use and forget and pretty much the same for the add content that is being served up, but that is nielsen's point, and as as a portal google is very much way, way behind most net companies. So yeah google will really hate this and try to convince everybody it just ain't true, real fingers in the ears la-la-la stuff. As a portal google has a lot of work to do.
Wrong country idiot. All my neighbours are insured by the government. I can have fair trade if your greedy and I'm not, I tell you to GGF and trade with some else who will also trade fair.
Speaking of updates, as distributing a computer virus is a criminal act, should not governments be maintaining virus registers and make the available to the public, so that the public can protect their machines.
As for the email, well I suppose if they were allowed to enter post offices and record all the address details of all the post going through the system, and where no return address was on the back of the envelope, open the envelope in order to try to ascertain the return address, what you say that is not legal, hmm. So for email, fine, legally you send it to your ISP (your ISP is the from address) and they send it to the recipients ISP (that ISP being to the address), the receiving ISP 'opens' the electronic transmission comprising the email to ascertain to whom it needs to be forwarded and does an automated non-invasive check for spam or viruses.
The whole thing is just so stupid, consider this, if a person who might commit a crime, suddenly finds out they are under scrutiny by law enforcement, they will very likely cease the criminal conspiratorial activities, hence no crime is committed, and no additional tax dollars are diverted prosecuting and imprisoning someone, everybody wins. Unless this is some crazy scheme to watch all of us criminals all of the time, basically anybody to poor to afford privacy (anybody not a member of the upper class, the political class or senior representatives of the military/law enforcement classes and of course their families) should not be legally entitled to any.
What would be interesting is to see them get audited and see how much they support themselves rather than the composers, and if RIAA members own the composing rights after having contracted them off the artists, isn't really just the slimy RIAA operating in the background and driving the others like a puppet.
I would not be suprised if RIAA members where the ones getting by far the bulk of the money from the so called composer representing organisations. I really really see a classical music revival coming on.
Hence any city that allows buskers owes ASCAP money, and back fees and interest.
A segmented rotary blade design would likely be much safer and allows for wave energy to be collected, which provides a shock absorbing quality, just with a simple counter weighted tether.
Public is not a page buried in a web site. Public is just the same as the way they advertised no faults, in newspapers, on the radio and on the TV, a full retraction.
A hackers dream, hacking a guard bot, would it be an inside job if a electronic guard bot stuns every body and robs the place. As for restraining people, yeah, set off a smoke detector and the bot has to let you go or else in the event of a fire you could get roasted innocent victims.
Now I wonder who will be guaranteeing the quality of the software for those bots, who is going to take the great leap of faith in their virus free, bug free, secure against hackers software, or who will be stupid enough to use software that does not have a proper warranty.
Save your lies about greed being some kind of virtue, I cant think of any society through out history, that has attempted that outside of 20th century mass media marketing.
For me health care is something I don't want to think about, something I have not interest in pursuing a trial and error approach whilst chasing the cheapest price. I want healthy and happy neighbours, I want neighbours who when they get sick the only thing they think about is getting well, not whether they can afford it or whether their budget health insurance will pay. A more worry free society is worth the additional tax.
All of this for what was a basic design flaw by some idiot trying to shave cents of a unit they stupidly enough has to survive for a long as possible to allow as many games as possible to be sold for it on a per unit basis.
M$=B$ statistics, total number of units shipped includes warranty replacements, per unit game sales excludes warranty replacements.
In reality the second argument is the real defining one, they who host the 'key or defining' open source package choose under what conditions they will accept your code.
You of course choose whether your code goes to a wider audience or disappears into obscurity.
As for M$ statement it is just stupidly childish. Making that statement is utterly meaningless, if they use any GPLv3 code they are bound by GPLv3. As for the even sillier point of saying no matter what Novell write into their support certificates, M$ will interpret the language in Novell certificate in their own version of microspeak english and ignore directions from Novell is just so contrary.
In publishing the statement, M$ just makes it look like it is at the beck and call of the OSS foundation, they talk and M$ jumps. No other software company has bothered with this kind of statement, talk about losing the plot. Whom ever authorized this statement had better sober up before authorizing any more.
No, what they are really saying is you cant you open source, because you must used a closed proprietary source and force everybody to pay a license fee that will amount to hundreds of millions of dollars over the years to a company who will 'contribute' the right amount of money to the people who will decide which patented copyrighted protocol everybody else will be forced to use.
Perhaps at a stretch you might call software that analyses the contents of files, a users file search patterns, or software that creates a consumer profile of a person based upon the personal contents of the hard disk drive (and distributes it over the internet), might be called marketing middle ware but it is also pretty sucky software.
So a question might be is whether M$ HDisk search utlity is doing this, and is marketing middle ware or is M$ HDisk just an OS utlity extension that provides HDisk search services only.
Don't be angry at the pathetic, ineffectual, insignificant, empty, losers, feel sorrow for them, feel pity for them, they are the nothings of society, fit only for hiding in the shadows and prying upon other people lives.
Perhaps they have just not found their true calling in life amongst the ranks of the NSA or the CIA, where the elite perverts, the best of the worst, go to pry into the lives of thousands, even millions of people all over the world. Just consider the illegal wire tapping, now every agent, analyst etc. who was aware of or participated in that criminal act, is also guilty of committing a crime, obeying an illegal order is no legal excuse for breaking the law.
Now of course the criminal action they will have been likely to commit is invading the privacy of 'minors', which is of course where child molester comes from.
Also where children where using the parents computer and the RIAA agents failed to ensure that the person entering the contract was legally entitled to enter the contract, that failure of jurisprudence results in criminal trespass and technology crimes with regards to hacking computer networks.
There is also the question of fraudulent misrepresentation as well as entrapment. These people really need to feel the full weight and measure of the law, a few years cooling the heels in jail, should wake them up to the fact that they are not above the law.
Google is just showing itself to be more and more the company that for marketing purposes it is pretending not to be, I wonder how many of his private details that fellow in Germany would be willing to hand over to google now.
Gnome had better watch out, their predilection for the letter 'G' makes them a definite target for future legal hostilities.
The significant reduction of fear of failure and the impact that fiscal failure (through no fault of your own) can have on your families ability to obtain health care has no real meaning to greed based individuals, their family is just for show, something that is expected from their peer group and for those greed driven individuals something that can be readily sacrificed for greater personal returns, let alone other peoples families who are just something to be exploited.
For them being able to produce a drug life saving drug for $1.00 and sell it for $1000.00 is fantastic, and preferably the drug should not cure the disease but just limit the symptoms, so they can continue to sell it to the desperately ill. So that is the way they want to run their health care system, lots of desperate people, with life threatening diseases, to keep the health insurance, pharmaceutical industry and private hospitals running at maximum profit.
As for Australia, the current Liberal party ran surveys to see how much the general public would protest if they dropped universal health care, the only thing that stopped them from getting rid of universal health and letting the US health parasites take over was they discovered that the response would be very aggressive mass protests by the majority of Australians and they would end up out of office for at least 3 election cycles.
The point about identifying the IP address, is that they never ever identify the person, the user or the individual. That requires considerable evidence, like a video of the person using the device, that is singularly identified as being connected to the network (requires an additional implanted device), and is currently using the non permanent IP address, at the specific defined times, add to that the device should be obtained as soon as possible after that evidence is obtained to ensure no tampering with evidence (one way or the other).
Fresh thoughts and fresh minds, those who have been at it for a fair while can sence the eagerness of the newcomers and know they need to shift the contribution to areas where their experience will be of greater import, whilst the agile and quick coding minds can contribute most effectively at the code the more experienced can hone that contribution to a fine art.
A big thing about open open source is publicly demonstrating your coding skills to a peer review audience, as such, that opportunity must be maintained so the upcoming coders can gain the reputation and gain access to a highly rewarding career for those with the best skills. You really do want to avoid old timers hogging all the open coding limelight, but you certainly don't want to lose their experience and in the open source world, their genuine integrity and pride in workmanship.
The rumour is the biggest reason they don't want to shut down Gitmo, is because they don't want to release into the general public what they have created, a group of depraved, sexually distorted, homicidally violent, mentally disturbed, sadomasochistic individuals, who take pride and pleasure in the inflection of pain and suffering upon other human beings, and were talking the about the guards, not their innocent victims.