Super injunctions are no longer made in English courts and none have been made for over six months.

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"to build a free operating system that they then give away (and I mean BSD, not Linux, which relies on copyright)"

And despite this most people use an operating system with a charged for commercial licence and most installations of free operating systems is the one that relies on copyright.

I think you troll....

Dunno, neither Java or Mono are the name of infectious disease in my part of the world, where are you from?

You don't know much about software development do you...

Hmm, I'm not so sure Identity theft has risen sharply. However I am am certain that some companies have been selling "identity theft insurance" and generating all manner of stories in the press.

I had to go to the (NHS) dentist here in the Uk a few weeks ago, to have a crown re-fitted. I got an appointment in under a week and it cost me £15. Free would have been nice, but I'm not complaining havinvg paid private in other countries in the past.

Do you have any sources that backup your national and cultural stereotypes and your sweeping generalisations?

The only benefit I have drawn from IBM Lotus Syphony was as a demonstration to my HCI students of very poor interface design. It has "features" that were sufficiently inelegant that if a student had included them in a project I would fail them.

He is also very polite when hero worshippers (me) come up to him in public (The Green Man Music Festival), just to say hello.

Nice boast, got any contributions to the discussion of teaching programming?

The audience at slashdot is a really bad place to ask this question. This is an audience that is generally positive about solving complex problems, the harder the problem the more they enjoy it. An attitude just right for convincing people that programming is just too hard.

I saw students vanish like the mist when a department decided to switch from pascal (designed for teaching) to C (not designed for teaching). It is very easy to scare people off programming, and the language is only part of the story. I was put off programming for years by the simple assignment of "write a program to create a fibonacci series". Writing the program is easy if you had the algorithm but to me a fibbonaci series might as well have been a pasta dish.

Java runs on more actual physical devices than all the Windows,Linux,OSX, and Solaris installations put together

Your use of the word unambitious where you almost certainly meant unambiguous demonstrates my point better than I could ever have wished.