That plant cannot use the latest manufacturing process. It is used to manufacture chipsets and crap like that.

It's harder than you think it is.

Both US designed as well. I know there are open cores but they aren't the high end chips.

It's not just that. The Chinese have been working on miniaturization of their nuclear warheads so can they make them road mobile and submarine launched. They also are working on stealth aircraft, advanced radar, and the like. So you can bet they could use the processing power.

It's not like China doesn't have FABs and engineers that could make a similar CPU. What Intel fears the most is this will kickstart some national pride that's going to end with gov't funded R&D to make high end CPUs and GPUs.

You are wrong. The Chinese do not have the FABs. In fact no one else but Intel has FABs at that node. Everyone else is like 2 years behind and the Chinese FABs are like 6 years behind. There are export restrictions on advanced lithography equipment and the only litho manufacturers are in the US, Europe and Japan. Namely Ultratech, ASML, Canon and Nikon.

Their chip design is over a decade behind the west. Just look at Longsoon or the licensed ARM processors companies like Mediatek manufacture.

I'm surprised the FTC allowed it in the first place.

They're morons then. The license of a compiler has nothing to do with the license of the generated code. Just to prevent this particular stupidity Stallman even added a specific GCC exemption at one point but this is widely understood to be implicit by common law anyway.

I've seen stupidity in corporations regarding open source or free software several times and the license it came in was the least of them. Every single time they only want a piece of paper which states they aren't responsible for whatever happens wrong. They don't care how much they pay for that piece of paper as long as they can shift the blame elsewhere.

The Eclipse Public License is not that different from GPLv3 and I never saw that much dissension about it. It's one of the most forked or 3rd party supported IDEs in the market.

B5 wasn't that depressing. There was the Shadow War but the whole thing is kind of like WW2 redux.

The rich, most of them at least, don't have enough far-sightedness to think of things that way. To them it will be someone else's problem.

Ask the wealthy Romans how much their wealth saved them when Alaric came.

I never quite saw it in that way. It was just that their society could not see things working any other way. For them those kinds of regimes were as foreign as an Athenian democracy or Roman republic would be to a Middle Ages European Feudal state.

It's probably the usual. Someone gets numbers from a UK website and doesn't bother converting units or considering that the drive tests done in Europe and USA are different.

The purpose of a trademark is to serve just like a name. It's to uniquely identify a manufacturers so the consumer knows what they are purchasing comes from that manufacturer. That's why trademarks don't expire and you can't have different manufacturers with the same or a similar and confusing trademark.

Trademarks usually apply to a given spectrum of products. I would guess what happened to Apple Inc here is the same thing that happened against Apple Records. Originally there was no clash because the segments were different (computers vs music) but now that there is an overlap there's an issue.

I would guess the guy has a trademark for using apple logos on watches or something like that.

Actually the Industrial Revolution was preceded by the enclosure movement where land was privatized. As a result a lot of people who used to till public or collective lands became landless overnight. These were ready hands available to work in the newly created (private) factories of the Industrial Revolution. But yes let's just rewrite history.