There is a lot of whitespace activity in Europe. Here is one summary.

I don't know if it is that straight forward. I wouldn't recommend open sourcing your first round of code if it is the core of your business, but then again you should have copyright to your own code and if you are clever enough it gives you street cred when you try to sell the stuff. Competition is usually busy trying to figure out their own problems and if they copy from you, you can use it in your marketing and perhaps in future lawsuits. It's pretty rare that you've actually invented something really new and if you have I guess patenting would be to way to protect that. If you want to drum up publicity I doubt going open source is going to do that in your prospective customers.

Of course not. Thought of killing people with swarming drones turns me off no matter how justified the cause.

but, somehow I wouldn't feel good when my code worked in this case

helped me, yet again, realize how little I understand quantum physics.

The antenna is piece of crap, because when I hold my phone in my hand it loses signal. It is not a subjective feeling.

I haven't decided it is the best phone for me. I just happen to have one when my other phone broke. I'll get something else when I feel the time is right. There never was a decision: hm, what is the best phone for me? Oh it is iPhone!

Now don't get me started about my car....

I don't get why I should love or hate a piece of electronics. I have an iPhone 4, which I currently use daily. It has a crappy antenna, over simplified UI, is shaped like a piece of glass and every n00b owns one. Still I can get by with it and since I code stuff for iOS, I can show people what I've done.

What do you care about it?

I guess I could fall in love with an Android, but it would have to be Cherry 2000. Unfortunately those are limited edition and hard to find.

Still is... down right piece of crap. What is your point?

So you what you are saying is that 50% of people know how to program?

I'm a programer, porgrammar, programmar, damn it, I'm a coder and I write code

Please bring me my silver coated mittens James, and some Grey Popon for my caviar, I need to make a phone call!

I need to get myself one of those white N9 phones... Having an Apple or Microsoft phone ruins my geek karma

I saw something like this from Nokias research guys last fall in Amsterdam Symbian conference. They didn't have it mounted on the shoulder predator style and it was running on a Symbian phone so I guess it's not as cool... Can't find a link for it...

How about Alan Turing day!

Of course Steve Jobs day is decided by bunch of n00bs.

As a happy iPhone 4 owner I'd say: maybe less Crappy, but still mired in crap.