bring out the ol’ “fuck you, no.”

fork(u)

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!

where it positioned itself as a promising alternative to CDs.

Well, to cassettes actually... or both.

Define cheap.
Define better.
Define good.

It's not that they can't, it's that they won't.

A healthy global FOSS culture requires collaborative politics to be the flavour of the day

Bullshit. There's no reason people with political differences can't collaborate on the same project, unless those differences are really huge.

Aren't they arm-based? What's the hurdle?

Big spinning wheel would provide a semblance of gravity.

That's either BS or FUD, pick any two. Stick to a specific distro and train your staff and there's no reason for any IT personnel to find linux "harder to manage".

Users grumbling it's harder to use might be a different matter.

Digital necrophilia...

No, RDM is not the answer. If i pay for something i should own it.

If pneumonia got him into the hospital he could've gotten MRSA in the hospital.

DST is a digital STD