I have never successfully gotten Myst to run.

Just ask ArsTechnica how it worked out for them when they tried to pull that crap and then got beligerant towards their longtime readers when they called them on it.

I would, but haven't read their site since.

"The original did a good job too."

I'm sorry.. I agree with everything in your post, but I think, perhaps unintentionally by phrasing, you're short changing TOS here. The original one was almost entirely about social commentary, and it did a fantastic job. Thats why we're still talking about it decades later. Watch TOS through the lens of the times: cold war, racial instability, space race, technology leaps, counterculture, the end of imperialism.. All issues addressed head on.. in fact, one could argue it went too far. TNG also had some of this, but the time it was written in didn't allow such fertile ground for such work. Really, TNG is true to the series, but TOS is far and away the standard bearer for social commentary.

Things that are completely lacking in the reboot, as pretty much everyone agrees.

An early boss put it to me this way: In the corporate world, you are only ever going to be motivated to be just better enough than the competition to convince people to buy your product over theirs. If there are competiters, that means you get into a spiral of 'little advancement by one, followed by copying and little advancement in the others.".. its slow innovation. In a monopoly, you get no innovation at all.

In the open source world, you're motivated by what the problem really is. You're doing it to make a batter product, that meets a better need. It leads to much greater innovation. You don't stop when you're better than the competators. Whats more, if the need is great, anyone else can move it forward, not just the company/individual.

This is not unique microsoft, its something nearly every company struggles with.

Just for the record, I find the linux manpages to be extremely helpful and well put together. And that's good, because I can never seem to remember the order of the damned arguments to memcpy(), even after 19+ years of unix programming.

A quick look at google maps confirms it. The toll is the I-95 toll is located about a mile inside of Delaware. I know of no law of interstate commerce that would allow Maryland to run a toll boot on Delaware land.

http://xkcd.com/386/