Stop trolling pro troll. I know that you know that had Google joined with Microsoft to purchase the patents under the conditions Microsoft had layed out it would not have stopped Microsoft from attacking Google's partners HTC, Samsung, Motorola at the time and others using Android with these same patents. And slinging around the talking points of Microsoft does nothing for your credibility on this matter.

THIS!!! exactly this. Sony used to be a pro-technology company until they got into the content business and now have become one of the biggest assholes. I went from owning exlusively Sony products to running far far away from anything Sony because of their behavior once they got into the content business. Will not purchase or reccomend Sony products until they leave that business. They are one of the MPAA and RIAA biggest members.

B&N did not settle. They countersued and exposed the patetents Microsoft were threatening them with. Then Microsoft payed B&N millions of dollars to go away.

And IIRC EMC along with Microsoft and IBM lobbied to shoot down software-patent reform bill in congress recently. Won't be purchasing anymore products from this group.

First of all I'm not "Left WIng" Im as pro second ammendment as they come. SO you have no clue who I am. Your Limbaugh/Culter bubble does not allow you to see rationally. You only see in black and white. Liberal and Conservatives. Stuck in the talk radio Matrix without any clue of reality. I never claimed to be better than anyone.

Mankind not changing significantly recently has nothing to do with evolution being fake.

Because people are not paranoid like you doesn't mean they are "ultra-left wing" LOL

Also I do agree with you in your previous post about the overreactions of the zero-tolerance-lets-not-think croud. Many examples of that such as the kid who shows up to school with plastic knives in the back of his moms car. She purchased the knives and forgot them in the car. THe kid drives car to school. Expelled. And yes that is moronic.

its amazing to see someone living in the Hannity/Limbaugh/Fox/Culter bubble on Slashdot. Hey did you know that Evolution is real and the world is not 6000 years old?

It sounds familiar because your hero Michelle Bachman was recently calling for an investigation of people in congress who are not "American enough" So yeah... Deja Vu.

Yes pics please.

so the perp hears the thunk on their car as the leave and once they are out of sight they simply stop the car and carjack someone with a different car to get away. putting them at risk.

THey could just not bother at all. is there anyone else offering bug bounties on software they didn't even write to begin with? Anyone?

Or Texas for that matter.

yeah and add Texas to the list.

MOD this up! Couldnt have said it better. MS forcing HTC to pay upwards of $5 per device sold over sofware patents in Linux else see them in court is partially what got HTC in the situation they are in now. Now why would HTC play ball unless MS offers to pay them all the money lost from that Linux License and stop charging them that extortion fee.