Management says "Linux?...there ISN'T a big company behind it?!? Get that $%^&* disk out of my office and install Windows! At least I can sue Microsoft if it malfunctions!"

Nope, cheap ass management. Most managers say "Is it still running? Ok, then why upgrade? Support... I don't care about support, I want my #$%^& bonus, and I won't get it if we spend #$%^&* money to upgrade computers when they don't NEED IT! Get the #$%^&* out of my office!"

Sure you've got the right to it NOW. How soon before a "sponsored" law gets submitted making it illegal to leave your wifi open... you know, "to protect the children"?....

Get outside once in a while and leave anything battery powered inside. Your business doesn't _deserve_ having you on-call 24/7. Go out and study trees, or clouds, and see how the world's made. Go to the beach and take a dead tree book. Your stress levels will be a LOT better in the long run.

Apple and Samsung remind me of the seagulls in "Finding Nemo"....... "MINE!MINE!MINE!MINE!MINE!MINE!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4BNbHBcnDI

Yes, but Slashdot's new corporate owner has the editors posting stories that will bring the most clicks from the general public, not "news that matters".

Go outside Slashdot and take it to the "real media". Point out the current interest in "maximal copyright enforcement" and show how you, the content producer, have been abused. But be prepared to SHOW PROOF the video is indeed yours. However, be aware that people in that area of the world already feel taken advantage of by the USA, and feel that this kind of thing is justified, especially after the media hoopla over the “Innocence of Muslims”.

The lawyers who are our Senators, House of Reps, and Executive Branch are glad their drinking buddies in the patent enforcement industry are making a bundle! So there's no reason to expect changes in the patent laws.

It's _VERY_ likely in the future that if your software/hardware is not "blessed" by your government, it will be illegal to own, and you will be blocked from accessing any network, including the internet. This neatly stops things like Wikileaks, offenses against the media, etc, etc. What, this is unthinkable?... Weeeeeeeeel, The iPad's selling in record numbers, and ALREADY does this, by design. Unless Apple loads the software in the "App Store" it _cannot_ be loaded onto an iPad without "jailbreaking" it. And most sheeple are just fine with that. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad#Digital_rights_management It's only a short stroll to making that kind of behavior lawfully required for _ALL_ computing equipment. After that, no more worries about proving what IP Address belongs to whom; just prove that you "unlawfully" hacked hard/software to make it do something the government doesn't want, and throw you in a cell.

Haven't yall figured it out? RIAA/MPAA mantra: "The Job's not done til the internet is GONE" Making linking illegal will pretty much kill the internet.

The "marketed the hell out of it" part is REALLY what Apple's good at. Steve Jobs was one of the best salesmen this planet has ever seen. Only Ron Popeil was better.

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT! Thanks for playing, please try again. Apple is suing Samsung based on how their product _LOOKS_ a so-called "Trade Dress" patent. Regardless of how much work Apple, Inc had to do to "make it fit" in a cheaper machine, they never licensed the design of the GUI from Xerox PARC! http://goo.gl/u38CE In Steve Jobs own words ON VIDEO: "Good artists copy, great artists steal" Interview with Steve Jobs (1994) about the creation of the Apple Macintosh. Did Steve Jobs steal from Xerox ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU

Mr Jobs said: "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this." http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-15400984

"Intellectual property" and "copyright" issues exist now because the U.S. government has been so good at shipping jobs and manufacturing overseas. That made Washington decide that media production is the _ONLY_ big money-maker the U.S. has left, and hence it _MUST_ be protected!

Here's how to get totally rid of it http://goo.gl/Av1Pm Short answer is, keep your anti-virus up to date!