likeable

The person of the year award is not meant to mean the most likeable or best person.

I once asked a popular and likeable VC what some rules of thumb were for equity splits.

That's a stretch for an explanation of why men and women find the women's voice more likeable.

Code is expensive to maintain and if it doesn't carry its weight it gets cut, even if it's vaguely likeable and nifty.

You need to stay hungry and driven, and one way to get this is to have someone who is not very likeable -- but that you still respect -- at the helm.

The characteristics of "nice" are, to the outside observer, socially apt and likeable.

Your quicksort may be implemented in the ST monad, looking like some bastard child of C, but the function type ends up being qsort :: Ord a => Vector a -> Vector a\n\nAnd that's one of the likeable properties of Haskell: it doesn't deny that real-world programs sometimes require mutability, but allow you to isolate it through the type system.

I can only agree when you say that "copyright is a key part of many forms of commercial activity whose nature is not changed by the Internet and whose deep-seated roots require the continuation of copyright" - however, it seems this begs the question whether society wouldn't be as likeable without those forms of commerce, and with others in their place?I think you're right that in a world of weaker IP, Pixar wouldn't have happened, for want of capital.