I'd rather have these guys bleed Samsung for a pittance, than the alternative to not having patentable standards and technology...

Sure, RembrantIP didn't contribute to the invention, but they probably paid a nice sum to the inventor (who now can go invent something else, and not flip burgers).

Now, having secured their financial interest in the a-priori standard of Bluetooth, other device manufacturers actually can make the jump and implement it, knowing some leacher doesn't come along and foil their business. The newcomer doesn't have the non-recurring costs to cover...

For the end-user, this means I'm not tied to Samsung's proprietary protocol, and my Nokia BT speakers work even with Apple's device. The alternative is that only Samsung speakers work with Samsung phones.

Sorry to rain on your two minutes of hate, but I prefer the lesser evil of patent trolls, to walled gardens. Apple fanbois need not reply to this, thanks.

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Name three other? Or at least define "high income country".
I won't try to dispute what you say about the American justice system, but its rather unique...

FTFY.
Ok, I lie. I know two but they run linux in a virtual machine on the Mac, so I guess that doesn't count?

Last time I was maintaining a cross-platform project it felt like every single non-trivial commit broke the CI, and always on the Mac. Many times because Mac doesn't yet support POSIX 2001 fully.

Ignoring its quirks, I do agree that OSX is a great operating system, but it could use a decent desktop environment. On Linux, I can change it so it suites me, not you.

I just realized I probably got trolled. 13.4% share, and you win the desktop war?

I am not.
Quite honestly, I thought "writing emails" was not even a question here.

A basic course in programming (coding, CS, call it what you will) must be on the curriculum for any modern school. Something that teaches how computers work, not only how to use them. With the ubiqousness of computers today and in the future, the point is so painfully obvious IMHO that I cannot understand why its opponents don't even bothering to explain their standpoints.

In this day and age, basic computer skills should be a mandatory field of teaching. Right? As a side-effect, it solves this issue for every other minority aswell.
Assuming they don't have ergonomic mouses.

Or does K12 mean university level?

And last I checked, BitTorrent was a p2p protocol...
Time marches on, I guess.

After the first paragraph, I thought I'd mod this up. This deserves to be +5, Insightful.
After the second I thought +4 Insightful is sufficient.
After the last paragraph I decided just to post this reply instead.

Sitting on top of a huge canister of highly combustable stuff, propelling you to orbit, isolated in a thin canister full of pressurized tanks of who knows what. And all this solid Soviet craftsmanship.

Why does the (safely stowed away) gun sound like the crazy part here?

Informative? Informative 4??
I was aiming fror a Troll with positive rating. Or Funny in the worst case.

Most articles?
From the rat's nest of links in the summary, it seems the Cringley article is the only one out there.

Great troll. Its just sad to see how many /.:ers bit.

My HP z840 is not three monts old, and fully supported by HP and/or RH.
It even had a physical RHEL 6 driver CD in the package!
As of a few years back the 3rd party SW vendors have slowly started to add support for Ubuntu, but as of now, only the linux fanatic could even consider switching. RHEL has been the obvious choice on the desktop for the last 10 years (if you didn't want Solaris). I even had RHEL 5 on my laptop for a while back - no problems whatsoever.

Never mind how you twist light into a Mobius strip.
How do you twist light into a regular strip in the first place?

Finally, a proper use case for the Raspberry Pi. And in its natural habitat at that!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

So much stuff one has never heard about.

Please spare me from "programmers" who have never seen the inside of a computer chassi!