not to mention smarmy bits like

inconsistent with Google’s own commitment of openness

Which basically means

we would never let you be compatible for free; look at how we block free implementations of ActiveSync; however we demand that Google let us into their market so we can fuck them because they aren't nearly as nasty as we are

Microsoft are a bunch of hypocrites as ever. Google should not be opening up anything for them until Microsoft fully opens all of their server protocols; clearly shows remorse for the things they have done in the past (including clearly identifying who was responsible and ensuring that they are handed over to the justice system) and fully and clearly compensates all of the companies and people (Sendo; Netscape; Borland; Novell; IBM etc.) they have damaged in the past through abuse of their monopoly situation.

If some guy has come by and been caught robbing you several times, that does not make it discrimination if you don't invite him when you invite all your other neighbours over.

Exactly

CentOS) Costs Nothing
Counterfeit Windows) Costs Nothing.

Exactly nothing in common.

Please read through my post again. The thing which doesn't apply to a Nexus is the boot loader protection which "protects" you from fixing the Android PRNG yourself (on a Nexus, you can even install alternate ROMS that you can compile yourself). You might also want to note my signature.

This is true because Bitcoin is not really designed for anonymous exchange. All transactions are public and many points on transactions are publicly known. You have to try pretty hard to be anonymous.

What Bitcoin added is lack of a single point of centralised control or even distribution. It is a pretty neat cryptographic design which has actually been implemented in real life. Up until recently, the NSA could probably have taken over and destroyed Bitcoin at any time, but since there seem to be quite a number of ASIC miners working now probably even the NSA doesn't have the compute power to do that and so there's no real way to put Bitcoin back into centralised control.

There was nothing before Bitcoin that achieved all that.

Having said that, if someone could do the same but with proper anonymity and some other desirable characteristics there's nothing to say that Bitcoin won't be swapped out some time in the future. No idea what that would do to the value of a Bitcoin. Probably depends on the value of the Bitcoin holdings of the guy who designs the future.

It's even better than that though. You can write it; but Google carefully thought to protect you from actually deploying it by putting Android under the Apache license which means that your phone manufacturer can lock down your bootloader to protect you from actually changing anything. Just think of all the people who might end up putting insecure random number generators into their phone and screwing their security if Google had used, for example, the GPLv3.

All hail the all knowing and all wise Google.

(I will admit that at least Google's own Nexus devices don't really do this; but why spoil a good rant with facts.. )

Google is more than google.com. The ISPs want to force them to pay for Youtube traffic whilst getting free access to the search engine.

There is a whole world of hurt coming for someone.

Garbage. The comment he was replying to was indulging in "ad hominem" and he was attacking that argument by pointing out that it wasn't even attacking the right person. The parent poster didn't even claim that Bruce is right.

I hereby declare a new logical fallacy; "Argument by yourlogicalfallacyis.com"