So that raises the question that someone else here already asked. How can they legally sue without all contributing authors being involved, or at least consenting? At what point did the ownership of the software solely lie in the hands of this one person?

But person A disagrees, which I guess is the point to all this. I personally don't think anything is going to change as far as the legal action represented here, but if it did, things like this could be the beginning of the end for the GPL. I'm actually surprised that they never accounted for anything like this.

I grabbed this for my 9 year old last year last-minute and he loves it: Radio Shack snap kit. (Although I thought the kit I bought him was much bigger than this one). He even went beyond the included instructions and started experimenting with some interesting (and scary) things.

This year, he's getting this book: We dare you

Also saw one of these on woot the other day, but missed out. Still thinking about getting him one though: Excalibur Space Navigator

Been a long day-Rants are good, I just did a nice little one myself. I noticed one reply to your posting about the MS/sucks comments being 80% Fad-which is true. But to reply to your posting (without sarcasm)-MS could be a usable OS, and it is "good enough" for some people-My main meaning for the three points was that it is all about money with them. All three points have nothing to do with durability-being "good enough"-or being useful in any way whatsoever-they are all about money. Microsoft has made it easy for us to become criminals (and I am sure we have all violated at least one of the mentioned). Hopefully the larger companies like Redhat and Caldera won't fall to the same fate as MS. If you remember it wasn't all that bad in the beginning-has anyone ever had a crash in DOS? I have maybe only once. It starts to get into the factor of quantity instead of quality. Linux is the better OS-you have to admit, even though most programming is running on a budget of $0. It blows my mind that they make so much money-yet apparently cannot find decent programmers to spend it on (must have promoted them from upper management). I had an NT4 machine at my home once also-for learning purposes. It actually did run OK for a while (with a one user load). But after I installed SP3-things were never the same after that-after having to reinstall in a couple of times, class was out-and so was NT4. People are probably always going to follow the FAD-you are right however-maybe we should try to focus more on how good Linux is-rather than how bad MS sucks-definately couldn't hurt.