Wont what EXACTLY is infringing come to light during the trial? And couldnt the community be able to have non infringing code written before a decision is even handed down?

all those people lined up to buy the xoom tablet just got the major incentive not to. This is what they call artificial obsolescence, they used to do it with feature phones youd have to get the newest hardware to have the newest software.(the old phones end up in landfills) But we all know now that our old hardware is more than capable of running the newest software. This is done to drive sales and to force you to keep lousy things like moto blur. The the votes are in motorola and no one wants motoblur they want stock android!

Proprietary software especially Microsoft is not meant to work with other software by design. Unlike its open counterparts that are flexible and able to be integrated more easily. Maybe they are concluding that the time it takes to do these integrations costs more than if you had an all MS shop But i find it hard to believe.

What this is really about is wich format gets chosen as THE defacto standard for the html video tag. Now no one wants an encumbered format to be choosen because it will hinder how video is used/viewed/shared/sold redistributed. There HAS to be ONE codec chosen you cant have multiple contenders because it would cause sites considerable bandwidth and hosting costs to have videos encoded multiple ways. Also you pay the "h264 tax" when you buy cameras dvd players etc. Once webm is ported to those devices youll stop paying that tax.

So Apple is copying Android "honeycomb" and allowing for no buttons at all? Will they allow for your own custom "soft button" setup?

when you see the ads you are paying for the content. This means apple users who don't install flash are thieves. And in iOS powered devices Apple is condoning piracy!!!! :O

will they be open sourcing anything? will they stop using windows only codecs and standards? will that message "your platform is unsupported" go away when i login to my mail under linux? will their search engine actually return hits for things im actually looking for? If they use open standards their technology would work on every platform and they would actually save money in the long term IT only makes sense since their company was built on top of opensource

They should fork to get REAL AUDIO AND VIDEO options. Millions of people use msn and yahoo yet the voice chat features and video dont work. And you cant use the audio channel in the yahoo chat rooms which millions of people use. (gyachi can do it so they can grab the code from there its gpl)