This sort of Product Hell (we can't be bothered to improve our own product, and we don't want to anyone else improve it either) is one of the major bugaboos of proprietary software (think Amiga, think game emulators, think software from any defunct company).. and one which OSS very nicely avoids.
why they are suing a 17-year-old, how can they get money from him? They picked this teenager because he is small and weak, naive and poor, relatively speaking. Once they win, they can then use the precedent to clobber the more powerful adversaries.
Increasing voter turnout is not always a good thing. In the ideal democracy, those who care about a subject vote, and those who don't, don't.
Polluting the votes of those who care with those who don't risk random results, or worse, risks corruption due to the ease which the votes of those who don't care can be bought.
Increasing voter turnout by making it even easier than it is now to vote merely floods the votes of those who care (that is, they care enough to drop by at the voting booth on the way to work) with those who care so little they can't be bothered to do even that.
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This sort of Product Hell (we can't be bothered to improve our own product, and we don't want to anyone else improve it either) is one of the major bugaboos of proprietary software (think Amiga, think game emulators, think software from any defunct company) .. and one which OSS very nicely avoids.
why they are suing a 17-year-old, how can they get money from him?
They picked this teenager because he is small and weak, naive and poor, relatively speaking. Once they win, they can then use the precedent to clobber the more powerful adversaries.
Increasing voter turnout is not always a good thing. In the ideal democracy, those who care about a subject vote, and those who don't, don't.
Polluting the votes of those who care with those who don't risk random results, or worse, risks corruption due to the ease which the votes of those who don't care can be bought.
Increasing voter turnout by making it even easier than it is now to vote merely floods the votes of those who care (that is, they care enough to drop by at the voting booth on the way to work) with those who care so little they can't be bothered to do even that.