Well, there are calculations saying that the cost is about 2% of global GPD to fix it. Thats a small sacrifies as I see it.

The cost to global GDP to not fix it - its higher...

Its like fixing a house - either you fix the roof or you let it rain in. It you let it rain in; sooner or later your whole house need to be rebuilt from scratch because its rotten from the inside.

Not at all, revenue has nothing to do with what you should pay for a patent. Turn-over is the more important figure.

5% is usually the opening bid fÃr non-standard patents so 2.5% fÃr a FRAND patent is reasonable.

Whats unreasonable is that Microsoft did not even give an counter offer.

The remaining parts is useless for Microsoft. So no need to buy them.

It was the devices Microsoft wanted all along.

From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

Decreased human populations

Some researchers have proposed that human influences on climate began earlier than is normally supposed and that major population declines in Eurasia and the Americas reduced this impact, leading to a cooling trend. William Ruddiman has proposed that somewhat reduced populations of Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East during and after the Black Death caused a decrease in agricultural activity. He suggests reforestation took place, allowing more carbon dioxide uptake from the atmosphere, which may have been a factor in the cooling noted during the Little Ice Age. Ruddiman further hypothesizes that a reduced population in the Americas after European contact in the early sixteenth century could have had a similar effect.[78][79] Faust, Gnecco, Mannstein and Stamm (2005)[80] and Nevle (2011)[81] supported depopulation in the Americas as a factor, asserting that humans had cleared considerable amounts of forests to support agriculture in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans brought on a population collapse. A 2008 study of sediment cores and soil samples further suggests that carbon dioxide uptake via reforestation in the Americas could have contributed to the Little Ice Age.[82] The depopulation is linked to a drop in carbon dioxide levels observed at Law Dome, Antarctica.[80]

And only recently have big corporations started to use standards-essential patents and refused to pay the license fee.

It used to be that big corporation only stole small company patents. Now they steal big corporations patents too - when those big corporations gets angry and wants to get payed for their patents - the abusers run to the government and hide behind their tailcoat

Well, they often seem to like to put them before even the US constitution...

Overreaching surveillance by NSA with PRISM and torture in Guantanamo bay are not fiction.

So they should select an illegal recourse like apple or microsoft and use other intellectual property without paying for them and be patentpirates ?

Suing in court for banning of products is what the politicians has proposed as plan for corporations to follow when criminal corporations break the law and uses their innovations without license.

Everyone know nerds knows everything.

This is a site for nerds.

Since its factual incorrect its not written by a nerd but rather by either a Troll and probably is some Flamebait.

Select one of them.

Linus has seen Wargames and knows that sometimes
the best way to win is not to play the game

He does it just for fun.

So why do they want to enforce making it more expensive to have secure computers ?

Why only on computers ? why not a sales tax on for example plumbing ?
Cause everyone needs to take a dump so should be a profitable tax.

However since its only on standard software and open source is nonstandard
I'm gonna presume its just a tax on those selling Microsoft software admin services.

Thats why the poster said "Release the secure boot key..."

Facebook servers in Sweden are expected to use 1TWh/year when fully operational - in 3 data centers located next to each others. So looks like Facebook will use something around 100 000 cpu per center.

Assuming the calculations is corrent.

Actually many of them is Linux servers. So they are cheap :)