Nice write-up. Extremely complex and awkward in every way if you think of it in real life and according to the current state of technoloy.

Here's my version of a secure transaction at Burger bar

Ask for combo #1

Hand of five dollar bill

Get combo #1 and some change

No trace left and no security risk.

Sure, I need to acquire and carry said 5$ bill in a safe and secure manner, but they way I do it RIGHT NOW satisfies my need for privacy and security.

You do realize I hope that it is an unfair game? Apple can kick google and its apps out of its fenced garden any time it wants.

Like the spoiled kid who does not like to loose.

oh come on, mod this one up

I think you would have more return on your money by sponsoring so called Tom yourself and using CentOS or Ubuntu or whatever other free distro.

My reasoning is, why pay for support if you don't need it? If you want to support postgres developers, support them directly.

Look at apple's profits.

And please stop the sensationalist question mark titles.

good point, mod parent up

+1.... it is like being forced to use the only computer model supplied by your ISP

Any of you who replied that 'military gps' is super accurate.. any reference to your claims? Not denying, just genuinely interested in knowing more about this.

And I suppose your dBase application can do an index on a HUMAN_IRIS(2) field type?

I "free" my cat every eff'ing morning and guess what, that stupid slave just comes back all the time. What a stupid slave, doesn't even understand he can just run away and go free. I understand your PETA point in the scope of farm animals.. but cats? really? I am the cat's stupid slave, trust me..

May be but from a technical standpoint that does not make windows any better.

Try killall on solaris just for fun.

Their days of getting royalties on every single copy of windows sold are counted.. Remember that HD-DVD vs Blue Ray war? MS was behind HD-DVD, and sony won with its blue ray.. I wonder if MS would have done the same thing if HD-DVD was not abandoned? I think they are simply pointing the middle finger to sony in that move..

But they could not work out an agreement with sun to obtain a licence with the terms and price tag they needed. So they did not call their implementation 'java', thus, not infringing on the trademark.
The trial is about patent infringement, not trademarks..

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:59AM, Dave Sobota wrote:

2. Can you spell out the risk of us relying on Sun for support in more detail? I thought Java was largely opensourced anyway -- so I don't understand why we'd be so worried if Sun went bankrupt, was sold to an unfriendly company or just decided to act erratically with respect to Java. Is it that we are concerned about the parts that are not opensourced (e.g., test suite) --that Sun might jack up the license fees or just stop licensing those altogether?

p29 of the exhibit