You're ok; the Statute of Limitations will have kicked in a long time ago.

Those drugs being used inappropriately is of course a bad thing but that won't happen as there's no chance that the real thing will be sent unless you're making the mistake that these people might feel bad committing fraud...

You can't use some of those names as they'll be confused with future Ubuntu releases.

That's almost the same situation the Europeans airlines have with the American government, except of course that the Americans aren't Chinese...



...yet.

...here.

Very well written but was I the only one that was beginning to feel uncomfortable towards the end?

The lack of will or desire.

...so would it be possible for Microsoft to settle/lose a non-novel and obvious patent case just so that it would set precedent? (One that would hurt them a little but OSS a LOT)

If this could be done, wouldn't it validate the patent and allow the plaintiff to then go after Open Source Software? It would be a bit like the whole SCO fiasco again but only with the power of the courts behind them.

Thank goodness that in this enlightened age, no-one would collude and pull off something like that.