Now try and bring it up with an old keyboard and no Windows key. (I know... No system with a keyboard that old can run Vista, but it is hypothetical, OK?)

No need to be hypothetical there. My desktop system that I built three years ago can run Vista with all bells and whistles very well, but I prefer my old clickety-clicky '94 IBM keyboard to anything else available today. (The tactile feedback is just better than any sub-$100 keyboard I've tried.) So there. :P

But in his blog post, Kohei says he signed the JCA when he started writing the solver.

I don't know if he retracted it later when he moved to Novell, but you seem to be working under the wrong assumption that he refused it outright. :-) The exact sequence of events does not come quite clear from the conversation though, I'm certain I'm missing significant details from the big picture.

Another thing, The Summer of Code stunt Sun pulled looks really weird, whatever happened elsewhere. They are rightfully accused of arrogance and disrespect, with that kind of total lack of communication toward a voluntary developer.

Ahtisaari is Finnish though.

Indeed! The "128 cores" (in reality the shader ALUs that Nvidia calls "Stream Processors") caught my attention too. And this from Computer World. *sigh*

More weirdity in there: "Why two screens? Most people are using two monitors at their desktop. [...]," said Wes Williams, worldwide product marketing manager for ThinkPads.

Uh, I'd think this Lenovo manager has very small values for "most people".

I would laugh but I'm crying because I just saw a Braun electric razor ad built around the highly topical concept of "Magic Christmas". Clearly, a manual razor cannot provide Magic Christmas like a Braun can.

(I mean, really, is Ol' Santa the best figurehead they could find for razors?)