Ex-Microsoftie: Free Software Will Kill Redmond (ComputerWorld)

"What we think of as Linux will never be written in anything but C?"
No not only C, but assembler too.

"Not even 20 or 50 years from now?"
Well that hold true for almost 40 years now (that OS are mostly written in C or/and in assembler)... pretty sure it will stand for another 20... At the very least - as far as Linux is concerned - for as long as Linus is alive and kicking.

"There are a number of OSes that are written entirely in virtual machines..."
And the virtual machines are written in what ? running on top of what ?

"...like JavaOS. Sometimes what starts as a research project eventually becomes mainstream."

from Wikipedia: "Sun now officially considers JavaOS a legacy system and recommends migration to Java ME.[1] This by itself however is not a full replacement, as Java ME is an API specification, which runs on top of an operating system, and is not an operating system in itself."

So sometimes what start as a research project fail and get abandonned.

"There are many GC languages other than C#."
Read again: "Bear in mind that in context [of the said book] GC is a place holder for C#".
The author clearly establish over the book that 1/ he is confused about the scope of the meaning of GC, and 2/ he clearly meant C# in the context of that quote.

"If you think the media tell you the truth, you are naive. The bias towards Obama was obvious to anyone with two eyes."
8 years ago, Obama was not even on the national political map yet...
beside the ridiculous part of the quote was : "journalists fomented anger towards Bush over the last __8 years__". Please explain where were all these 'anger fomenting journalists' prior to August 2005 ?
I supposed by the same logic, we should blame these pesky journalists at the Washington Post for Nixon unpopularity....

"Do you think fox is a propaganda arm of the republicans"
Yes
"but MSNBC is accurate?"
No