If the Qt project goes under, the KDE Free Qt Foundation has authority to distribute it under a BSD license.

Except The Qt Company is Trolltech reborn. Or was this part of your joke?

Peter Noone uses Linux? :p

No, there's been an open source implementation of OpenStep (the real name of Cocoa) for decades. Some of the platform stuff is Apple specific, but that is true of Linux and OpenBSD as well. You can handle it the same way you handle any other platform incompatibility: encapsulate the incompatibility into as small a piece as possible.

Believe it or not, you can actually compile Objective-C code for Android and run it. Of course, you will have to recompile it, but that's not an issue when you have the source code.

This is exactly right. The US government could close this loophole, "crack down" on corporate tax avoidance, without any global cooperation. All they need to do is pass the law, and Obama can sign it.

The OECD has no power to change anything here, so instead they did something they have power to accomplish: they wrote a report. Bravo.

The other meme, of course, is starception.

I'm aware of independent computer shops that build desktops, but none that build laptops. And the problem with mail-ordering a laptop is the risk of having to deal with a screen and keyboard that look and feel unergonomic.

Until those obsolete contracts expire, the copyright owner is still bound by law to honor them.

It's better than having to travel from one city to another to find players with whom to play multiplayer in person.

You could always plug two to four gamepads and a TV into your gaming box and play multiplayer in person. Offline multiplayer usually has a pause function, so long as your group can agree on when to use it respectfully.

Then try playing games that support multiplayer in the same room, be it on the same screen or on a LAN.

Then your game's matchmaking is poorly designed. Tetris DS, at least, used to use something similar to Elo rating to separate the casuals from the hardcores.

But without some well-known studios, where are developers going to earn their experience and "pay their dues," to to speak, so that they can start a competent indie studio?

Because it's the easy way, compared to the hard way of QF pressuring the movie studios to withdraw NF's streaming licenses altogether if NF doesn't improve enforcement of territory limits in the existing contracts with the movie studios.

Mostly decades-long exclusive distribution contracts that predate the Internet.