Good luck accomplishing that when cellular carriers routinely abandon previous network stacks before their respective 20-year patents expire.

Then perhaps I'm not sure what you meant by "really stupid permissions".

What clubbing are you talking about?

Young seals and young dogs are both pups.

Now I get it: a seal pup looks cute because it combines most of the appearance of a dog with the whiskers of a cat and even shorter legs than a dachshund or corgi.

I assume this is an allusion to the folk tale "The Seal Wife" (#4080 on the Christiansen list) about a "selkie" (someone from an indigenous culture that makes swimsuits from sealskins) who washes up on an island on the north side of Scotland. She takes off her swimsuit and sets it aside, but a fisherman steals it. Stockholm syndrome ensues.

How much space would it take on the install disc to have full manuals for all included packages translated into all supported languages?

If you'll remember, Windows XP's default theme was considered "Fisher-Price" until people saw Windows 8's Start Screen.

Won't have the Google Play Store. The Android CDD requires that apps run in the full screen (or at least think that they're running in the full screen). This means the calculator app fills your entire 24" monitor, obscuring whatever else you're working on.

Are you aware of what permissions a .deb has to the user accounts on your box?

Try opening some of the larger, more complex Pages and Numbers docs and seeing what Word and Excel do with them. Or try opening Word and Excel, saving your complex documents in ODF, and opening them in LibreOffice for Windows. Let me know if that works any better.

Perhaps "Linux on the multi-window desktop" or "Linux on the desktop in a focused activity setting" is a more precise of what some people mean. The Android ecosystem, from the CDD on up, is staunchly opposed to rich window management, instead preferring a paradigm of all maximized all the time that makes it hard to work on one document while referring to another document.

Without a substantial usage share, it's hard to find affordable hardware on which to run "a technically damn good kernel".

Other than the political limits of obtaining cooperation from hardware manufacturers and application developers.

Netflix, Hulu, and the like do not offer arrangements to take advantage of this "five hour early morning window of unmetered downloads". I can explain how they could technically do so and still appease the movie studios, but they happen not to do it.

Even if you ignore prior art from 1982, the Supreme Court of the United States recently decided Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank to strike down treatment of "with a computer" as an inventive step. I'm not a lawyer, but I'd recommend that nonpracticing entities reconsider their business plans in light of the opinion of the Court.

But there is a copyright on the lookup tables to which game mechanics refer. Likewise, there's no copyright on falling blocks, but a judge ruled that Tetris Holding owns copyright in the seven 4-cell pieces.