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Oops! The "Thank you" below was meant for you. (Dodgy 3rd party mobile app, honest!)

Looking again, I'm going with de Havilland Vampire as the most likely candidate.

Are there many other planes with this design of airframe? I recall seeing a plane similar to this in the air in the mid 70s (in the UK).

It stuck with me as it was unlike any plane I'd seen before, or since, until recently a drone passed overhead which had a similar construction.

RedHat has joined them in turning license audits into a profit center.

If a company is using licenses it hasn't paid for, and so isn't entitled to, why is the vendor the bad guy for catching them out?

Maybe I'm the odd one out here as an individual in paying for the movies I watch, and the music I listen to; but I would expect a business to pay for the software it's using, irrespective of your stance on "big media".

It's not as if Netflix isn't trying, it's just that the movie industry as a whole is determined not to cooperate.

Can you imagine a music industry where, in order to listen to new releases, you are required to go to "listening parlours", or wait for radio, CD, streaming release|?

it's astounding to me that affordable broadband access is still an issue even in the United States

Not sure how to respond to this, other than to point out that by most metrics, the US is largely a 3rd world country:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/theres-a-third-world...

https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/study-by-...

https://www.fairobserver.com/region/north_america/poverty-in...

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/six-ways...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-develop...

etc., etc.

"not supported" can mean anything from "physically impossible" to "we don't want you to"

More like:

from "physically impossible" to "we haven't tested that"

they just couldn't be bothered to document all the possible combinations

Each combination adds exponential testing and documentation requirements.

Not tested != doesn't work. But that doesn't make not supporting it malicious. There are practical and financial cost to testing every combination, ultimately born by the consumer.

The daft thing is there are plenty of alternative names they could have taken, that are genuinely idle accounts, and arguably better names:

sussexroyals (there are two of them after all) thesussexroyals (more grammatically correct) thesussexes (as they are commonly referred to in the press) harryandmeghan (has only posted once since Dec 2017) meghanandharry (ladies first!)

and so on...

They take the XenServer sources, remove licensing restrictions

Um, how exactly? You generally can't take software with licence X, and republish it with license Y...

an em-dash works just a well without any of the pretense [of the semicolon]

The author makes a clear distinction between the semicolon and the em-dash.

And using them to separate list items which themselves contain commas is asking the reader to do too much work

The article is specifically about prose, and at no point suggest using semicolons for lists, although I think you overstate the difficulty in parsing your first example.