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If Stephen McIntyre is all about openness and taking advantage of the abhorrent disclosure of internal communications, why doesn't he follow suite by posting all of his personal e-…

Yeah, because this is definitely the argument this article is about... You're saying that your solution isn't to develop for Free Software platforms? I apologize for making assumpt…

I read McIntyre's site regularly, and find very little evidence of this. His 'political ends'? McIntyre spent 30 years in the oil/gas exploration business ("mineral exploration"). …

... I guess one reason for it is that BSD license put off more developers compared to GPLv2. No, it was just timing. The AT&T lawsuit cast a palor on the BSDs just when Linux start…

Well, what this showed us is that some respected climate researchers are just making shit up. What proof?

He has a clear political agenda. He's not an independent scientist (he's not even a scientist). What possible good can come of interacting with someone who -- in addition to being …

If I had a persistent gadfly like Stephen McIntyre who would use every opportunity to twist my data and words to his own political ends -- and the media accordingly -- I might also…

Then don't read them. I'm tired of the vagaries of Linux on my desktop, but I solve that by not using it.

If you stopped developing for the iPhone and started developing web applications or desktop applications or, indeed, almost any other type of software, you wouldn't have to ask any…

Politicized science is not good science. Please support the claim that they "hid" their data. Note that citing an unqualified politically biased source is not adequate support for …

As a scientist why would I invest my time in providing additional support to someone that will simply twist whatever assistance is provided to support his own agenda? As a programm…

The only people afraid of sunlight are those people with something to be ashamed of. There are plenty of reasons to be afraid of exposing internal communications due to the vagarie…

Of course, the email wasn't private, was it? It's a government funded (your money) institution. This justifies breaking federal law and then excising context as to leverage out-of-…

An ignorant, unqualified gadfly complaining about a lack of assistance and collaboration from working scientists is not a compelling argument.

You're ranting like a loon about brainwashing, cheering on the hacking of private e-mail, and you're getting upvoted for it? If my e-mail was hacked and out-of-context quotes were …

Are these people telling me i can't smoke in front of my computer? No, they're telling you that they won't fix damage caused by smoking, and they won't force their computer technic…

Other than Lessig, that trio does not even begin to represent me or innumerable other open source developers. RMS and Linus represent GPL and Linux developers, who are are only one…

Open source has long existed and thrived without RMS and the GPL.

Your argument makes the unfounded assumption that those vendors would have done the work you "lost" if the code had been GPL licensed. As a counterpoint, FreeBSD has progressed at …

Read the parent comment. I was replying to the specific statement that one cannot download apps onto the device other than through the App Store, not addressing whether it is usefu…

The big appeal of C for me is that it's portable (as long as you know to avoid the non-portable parts, anyway). Sorry, but I won't be using any language extension that will only co…