You’re saying that you’d publish anyway, and then shoot any judge who disagrees?!

Well, that’s one way of ensuring a speedy judicial process.

...as soon as the oil-producing companies compensate the oil consuming countries for any environmental damage their product causes. ...and compensate me for not being obscenely wealthy.

+1 Paranoid

(Not seen one for a while, mind you.)

Hmm, to me Icaza reimplementing .NET as Mono seems to be the direct analogue of Stallman reimplementing Unix as GNU. And for many of the same reasons (to allow people using the un-Free .NET escape to a Free platform). And with many of the same risks (that he would be shut down by the legal department of a powerful corporation).

Especially if they charge $10 for DRM'd digital copies of Dan Brown novels.

The Internet tells me that distributers take about 60% of the sale value of a book. Printing (especially hardbacks) must cost something too. It seems reasonable to expect that digital copies of just-released Dan Brown novels, especially those with DRM (given that they get to prevent resale and possibly sell it to you again in the future), should be charged at nearer $5.

(Take note of my incredibly rigorous mathematical analysis.)

'Course, then the publishers would be competing with their own physical-books business, so don't imagine that that would be popular.

"Yes, yes they will" (I should probably go tell The New York Times rather than Slashdot, mind you.)