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I would do well to remember this, and not just professionally.

IMHO, Python is probably one of the best languages in general. But I consider Perl, its opposite in many ways, one of my favourites.

In Perl I can be witty and find my personal style. Sadly enough, my code poetry might not be somebody else's. Reading other people's Perl code can be hard.

On the other end of the spectrum, Python feels aesthetically dull to me sometimes. But it's a great language to program in with larger groups of people, even when they have different skill levels and coding styles.

In the end, these languages are all just tools; you can do a hammer's job with a screwdriver, but really all tools have their purpose in the right context.

(Go's missing, though.)

Another explanation could be that some packages started having Git as a requirement or dependency. I seem to remember there used to be a package related to the KDE desktop that required the SVN client. I'm not saying Git isn't becoming increasingly popular, but strange jumps might be explained by dependencies or renames, too.

No, because it would be hypocrite to rate the importance of the name higher than the value of the code, and then nevertheless try to steal the code from the guy who spent all the time developing it.

The guy wrote the code and gave it a tongue in cheek name. Deal with it. What the hell is wrong with this world? Moral outrage in the sub-urbian latte crowd? Pillows not fluffed enough?

Man spends hours developing free software for the world and gives it a tongue in cheek name. World judges man and software by name, wants the software out of repository and the man gone from the planet.

I think John Cleese would like to send you all to the front line of a gruesome war – in panties, of course – to learn to deal with an actual problem.

Nobody chokes on their morning coffee when reviewing a pull request for "pantyshot". Such people ought to be sent to the front line in all-out war to learn to deal with some real issues in life.

Besides, men wear panties too. I've seen them do it.

Convince someone with diplomatic immunity or a member of parliament or other government entity. It will become an international battle of words and strong-arm diplomacy, but one country's government is quite unlikely to shut down another's. (Well, except perhaps the US.)

But truth be told, I don't think you can safeguard data on just one site. There's (D)DoS, ip routing, domain registration system, physically cutting backbones, etc. I'm sure no registrar wants to risk losing 50% of their customers ("50% of the world", assuming even spread), especially everyone in the US market, so as a profit-based organisation they will have to give in to threats of litigation or plain IP null-routing.

Mass distribution seems the way to go then. P2P or just lots of willing people putting the content on their own websites. Once it's out there, I guess it's nearly impossible to get Jack back in the box.

I've been dealing with at least 6-7 registrars during the years – all the way back to Network Solutions – both professionally and for personal use, and honestly never had any real problems with any of them. I've always avoided and advised others to avoid the cheapest options though. They might work fine for just an email address or website forwarder, but do you really want to trust a serious business to a company called GoDaddy?

Just don't ever forgot to prolong a domain name – keep your (company's) contract information up to date.

My personal domains are hosted at Gandi. They seem most aligned with the open-source philosophy and community, and they feel geek-friendly and less corporate and spam-like. They are located in Europe, which somehow makes me feel safer regarding DMCA take-downs or whatever suing troll pops up from nowhere. I don't feel very strongly about it, but I am happy with their services.

As I already said, I've never had any difficulties with any of the major registrars, so it doesn't really surprise me that most people don't have strong opinions or incentives to change.