Under the assumption that the story is true, thing that I cannot assume from a blog post, this should be notified to the authorities more than be posted on HN.
Also notice that before any actual confirmation or official investigation, pointing fingers trying to find companies that match the description could be a criminal offense as well as you could damage the reputation of totally fine companies.
As I once discussed with a friend of mine, once you remove semicolons, and give spacing a syntactic and semantic value, you almost have FORTRAN... this is just the icing on the cake :¬)
But that's an advantage too. As a non English-native user, I like when companies care about my language and culture and they do not stick dates to the MM-DD-YYYY format that is used by Americans only. Yes, of course, we should all go for YYYY-MM-DD... fine by me, but now you go telling my mom :¬)
You can share your Excel files and macros with other people too. Python notebooks are kind of cool but if you need something quickly to sift through the data to have an idea, Excel is an amazingly good tool for it
From the text ``With at least 12 major Indian languages supported, Indus OS has tapped into what the market needs, not what a government wants. That's powerful because it means the software is developing and pivoting according to demand. For example, it offers simplified predictive typing and translation between regional languages.'' -- way to go!
Well, when St. Linus Torvalds said those words, (1) g++ was not as good as many other C++ compilers, (2) the world was still full of very bad examples of C++: if you were lucky, back in those days you could have found some projects using C++03 but the majority were stuck to C++98 -- or worse -- and, (3) he called out the holy principle that "at my place, I make the rules". I do not think that in 2016 there are good reasons not to use C++ for an operating system. Even without using the STL -- which would require custom allocators at that level -- incapsulation of data inside objects, inheritance, templates and namespaces alone are a reasons good enough for me to prefer C++ over C at any time nowadays. In 2016, that is more a cargo cult not to use C++ for operating systems implementation than anything else.
Most probably yes. Linux desktop in general has been killed by OS X and -- on a very minor extend -- by Chromium OS and, honestly, that was easy to kill. Kde is probably the first evident victim of this
Also notice that before any actual confirmation or official investigation, pointing fingers trying to find companies that match the description could be a criminal offense as well as you could damage the reputation of totally fine companies.