If you are the person who wants to install a different distribution, I'm pretty sure you'd use a search engine to find a tablet that lets you do that.

So they have no licensing deals, but its still US only? If they are basically following the strategy that it is easier to ask for forgiveness then permission, why not do it the world over?

Pizza Pizza in Canada lets you schedule a delivery for a later time, don't know how far in advance you can do it as I've never used that option :)

Well to be fair the PLATO system didn't modify their logo, they just added a "heart" to the top of the screen. Google actually makes custom logos.
A better example of prior art would be Blue's News
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/logos.pl
As you we can see the first christmas logo was for 2000, a few months before google submitted their application.

I'm confused, is Ubuntu like WalMart, Amazon or the guy down the road?

How many people download mediocre top 40 music? A lot of people. Just because some cover band doesn't get downloaded doesn't mean people don't download thousands of albums just because.
I have a friend who has terabytes of music, do you honestly want to tell me he listens to all of it? I don't think he has enough years left in his life ;)

Except people will pirate anything, even the crappy stuff (note I love Baen Books :)

Actually no, RapidShare does host the files you upload to them. They then provide a link you can give to others, and you download directly from their servers.

I don't know about other places but when I worked at a gas station with a Tim Hortons in it, I would always give a free coffee to the cops that showed up on the night shifts. The cops who patrolled this area knew it, and well it made me feel just a little bit safer.

Canada is part of the EU?

I guess for customers receiving mail from you it'll be like a puzzle!

Yeah me too, I can't wait until they license the patent to everyone else.

All I see is *******, is it suppose to show your password?