Yes, but it's too bad the Amazon's reckless growth caused them to Kindle a Fire.

-a.d.-

I'm ordinarily the last one to defend Apple, but you clearly have no idea what a "patent troll" actually is. I abhor their use of dubious patents as a way to oppress any and all competition, but they do actually produce a product. Any if Google has been busy suing competitors, I haven't been hearing about it.

-a.d.-

We'll be safe... as long as there's a stairway nearby! ;-)

I think that, with Intel recently announcing that it will be making processors that only work with Windows (and by sheer coincidence, AMD making a similar announcement as well), ol' Steve-O will find a way to forgive him.

-a.d.-

...and now Iran giving them the boot?

Google must be doing something right! :-)

...as they get sued out of existence. Just about everything in their indexes is copyrighted!

...cocaine junkies should start watching more TV!

I don't think that "Microsoft Live Office Bing User Interface, Dot Net" is taken yet. I'm surprised they didn't go with that!

-a.d.-

Using a Beowulf cluster of sticky pistons, if you can imagine it.

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...the Contemporary Youths' Lexicon Of Neologisms!

Not yet anyway. I'm sure in time that WTO or WIPO will ensure that youe country's "intellectual property " laws get "harmonized" with those in the US.

Nope, that was not a troll. I was referring to Braben's very public rants about how people should not be allowed to mod their game consoles, nor have protected free speech when the topic is DRM techniques, nor even be allowed to resell their used games; simply on the grounds that they might threaten his industry's business model. As a developer, I respect Braben's work (Elite was awesome and well ahead of it's time), but I oppose his viewpoints just as I oppose the MPAA/RIAA/BSA and their ilk, and I don't want to further fund his agenda.

I can appreciate your candor, and I understand his position too, but it goes well beyond piracy. He is opposed to the right consumers have to resell their property (games) on nothing other than the grounds that it is bad for his business. He is opposed to the rights of consumers to modify their own property (consoles) in order to play the content of their choice (which could be a home-brew game). He does not believe that the right to free speech extend to those who would disclose the workings of DRM systems.
Yesy, piracy is wrong, and already illegal. Certainly though, you can see the distinction between just being opposed to piracy, and being opposed to other people's liberties because they might be bad for your business model.

Certainly! If you don't recall reading about it earlier here on Slashdot, David Braben has come out publicly against the rights of consumers to resell their used games. You can read it here.
And here is his rant against people hacking their own property.
His choice to use GNU/Linux as a kernel in his product notwithstanding, this man is no friend to those of us who value digital freedoms.