GM food can be harmful or not harmful depending on what genes are changed. It's like saying any food crop has been proved non-harmful.

This is rubbish science. Each GM variety needs to be tested spearately, for health and environmental effects. This is what the GM industry doesn't want to do.

Name some of them who have successfully taken Monsanto to court and won.

An digital music file is just a number. So yes, you can copyright numbers.

Not to forget that the Indians invented ZERO.

And the rest is government run and he's the head of the government. What else would they say?

Conflict of interest anyone?

Don't forget Cyber Ninjas.

You definitely can't see them!

Seeing Microsoft advising about security gives me that kind of nervousness. Especially when they are pointing the finger at someone else.

Let's see, Java runs on lots of platforms. Has it the same vulnerabilities on them? So we should all uninstall java and depend on Active-X? Which is now secure?

They could end up being accused of interfering in internal politics of another country by subsidising dissident groups.

No good way out of this really.

There is a small village in Switzerland named Champagne that has been making wine since the 1600s. It is now suddenly not allowed to call it's wine Champagne any more.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7332473.stm

Ridiculous.

That's what the copyright law is really for - to protect publishers and distributors.

Except that Apple has no monopoly. It has a high market share. That is a different thing entirely. Apple doesn't use that market share to lock people into its products. There are lots of competing products that are good solid competitors in any of its markets. You can use competing products with any of its products.

If you want to look at vendor lock-in you could look at gaming consoles, including Microsoft's offerings. But of course Florian you always defend Microsoft.

So if I go to my library and borrow a book for free, or a DVD or a CD I am stealing? Am I denying revenue to pay for creation and distribution of the content?

I and most people I know have been doing this for a long time with books and guess what - there are still books being written.

No there's nothing wrong with paying for apps that have been lovingly crafted and gone over by apple with a fine-tooth comb.

But it's wrong when they stop everyone downloading free apps or digging into the OS themselves if they want to are are willing to forego the guarantees.

Novell made all these bad decisions but still has wads of cash? Must've made some good decisions then.

Or you could outsource your pollution, industrial standards and workers wages and conditions to a place like China or India. Oh wait, you did that already.