Lies! Libertarianism is not about trading election money in exchange for government sanctioned monopolies. That's what we have now, and it sure is no libertarianism.

Well, the Apache 2.0-licensed, publicly available (on Git) code may not get you "locked in" and "manipulated to be incompatible", but the version MS will have in IE12, with very cool extensions that they won't give the code to, or may work only on one OS, might make you sorry you jumped on the TypeScript ship.

How can you call lax copyright laws socialist? In a socialist system you have more protection from the government, not less. Plus copyright law creates monopolies and that is a problem in a capitalist system, but not in a socialist one.

Plus, the parent's analogy is not correct. The correct one would be: can federal institutions of the United States of America create laws that apply to the member States?

He says: "the software on the Apple side could not be placed into the processor on the prior art and viceversa, and that means they are not interchangeable", so no prior art.
By this reasoning Samsung is not infringing, because you can not take Samsung software and run it on Apple "processor", or viceversa.

You are either not from the USA or you don't love your country enough to know about what her heroes died for.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_happiness

See, the Constitution says there are rights you can not sign away. EXACTLY the ones you mention! Isn't that a strange coincidence.

Where did you get the impression that this was about open source at all? nVidia had no/crappy Linux support for one of their products. When a group of volunteers started to work on fixing that, nVidia didn't help them at all. That's the problem, they could have fixed it themselves but they didn't, well not in the "same-day" support they are claiming (I understand that after half a year they released something that doesn't work well), and they didn't help volunteers that would do it for them (probably because of the open-source concern).
So I guess Linus would be happy with any kind of support, open or proprietary, but nVidia refuses both.

Funny you don't understand why: you get the power of the PandaBoard, at the price of two Arduinos.
You probably don't understand because you are comparing the Raspberry Pi with the PandaBoard when it comes to power and to Arduino when it comes to price. Try turning that around. Raspberry Pi is comparable in power with PandaBoard, maybe a bit less powerful, but is half the price!
Raspberry Pi is priced at around two or three Arduinos, but is ten times more powerful. Well, it's not even the same architecture, so I don't understand how you can't understand that someone who would want a cheap 32 bit machine, can't buy an Arduino! And if we talk about RAM, Arduino's can go over a bunch of kilobytes (usually 8), while Raspberry Pi is in the hundreds of megabytes league. Don't you see that your comparing cars to bicycles?

No, GPL exists to make the users AND the users of my users free. It is making sure that my software is never part of a proccess that robs any users of their freedom.
It is like a telecomunications company that makes sure that it doesn't step on the freedoms of their users, and if it supplies services to others, companies or governments, it also makes sure that they don't supply them to those that use them to subjugate their users or their people.
BSD is about puting it out there and saying "I don't care how others use it".

Maybe there is an important lesson to be learned here: if users shouldn't be able to sell their rights of making copies, then the copyright holder shouldn't be able to sell their monopoly rights either. Otherwise the content creators can spread unfair advantages between players in another industry that is not creating content (only distributing).
So, a monopoly is the only way in which we can reward content creators, but is it ok if the creator can spread it in other areas of the economy where monopolies do great harm?

From the begining of Java, until this day, Sun/Oracle have not been able to write a decent browser plugin to run graphics/GUI applications.
How much luck would they have had with an embeded environment to do the same?
There lies the reason for Google going on to make their own implementation with different graphics/GUI libraries. And they sue Google because it did something they failed at? Pathetic!

The planar process was developed by Jean Hoerni, born in Geneva, Switzerland (moved to the USA in 1952).
The invention of the computer (as a general purpose programmable machine) goes to Charles Babbage in 1837 (supposed to be mechanical), a Brit, in UK. The first built programmable electro-mechanical computer was created by Konrad Zuse in Germany in 1941. The first programmable electronic computer was the Colossus, built in 1943 by Tommy Flowers a British guy, in the UK.
The design of the first modern DIGITAL computer is indeed American.
And since you are talking about "scientists" and technological inventions, it could be interesting to see how much of the technology invented in the USA was made possible by immigrant scientists and engineers. I'm sure we can create a bigger list than the one you mention.

Well, it's a clock. One that's not running very smoothly.
At least they manage to use up the whole CPU for drawing some arcs, that must be a incredible accomplishment.
Reminds me of the 8bit computer days when some were using fast asm routines to draw circles, some were doing it painfully slow with BASIC.

When SOPA/PIPA were rejected, this success was attributed to the outcry and protest of the people. In fact the people had the support of a number of BIG corporations (like Google) who also felt threatened by the bills. Now that the corporations have been made partners and exempted from the bad effects, it's just us. We will see how well we do on our own, but I'm not very optimistic.

I don't think it's possible, since the components don't change state. I tried to use the random escapes of the ball to make it go around in my machine a number of times then on an escapement, get thrown to the output. But the escapes happen in such strange ways, they seem to be just bugs (totally defy the logic of the component), so even that is not much fun, being so random and illogical.