I'm assuming they're targetting commercial vpn providers rather than companies using VPN?
If not, I'd like to get some address where to register corporate endpoints which should be excluded from filtering.
Otherwise managing workstations and servers located in China might become rather tedious.
Atleast this IPSEC VPN to China which I'm using to post this message seems to work just fine right now.

You clearly haven't tried Outlook 2013 yet.

Or downgrade.
If you have active SA on machine that has pro/ultimate sticker, it gives you permission to run W8, W7, Vista, XP, Windows 2000, NT4 or DOS6.22 & W3.11.
Yes there's also 2 and 1 but all applications on them run on W3.11 anyway.

It's just a gui for Mer, which you can fork already.

Or you could

1) place physically similar datacenters around the world
2) make your datacenter virtual, so you can keep the applications running at any place, and verify that hot-migrate works
3) ignore localized storms, since you have capacity and uptime on global scale

Sure, you notice that the datacenter goes down, but you don't have to waste diesel on generators, since the services have already been handed over to the next datacenter to handle.
Your crew can stay at home sleeping in their own beds rather than some cleaning closet or meeting room at datacenter and fix things once the storm has passed.

Patents won't touch you if you make 1-10 units.
Other manufacturers won't consider you as worthwhile to legislate against since you most likely won't make any profit from those devices sold.
From US point of view, good luck getting your device FCC approved, that'll be cheap and fun process!

Logica is owned by CGI, it's canadian company now.

Because that wouldn't allow me to use the device like a smartcard and login to every system with entering my unlock key/pattern.
I'd have to separately configure email for that PC, install software, update software... why the extra device?
All that stuff is already on my mobile.

I'd like my cell phone to act like a thin client.
Just pop it into charging dock and it gives you browser and email on big screen(s) and rdp client to access applications on server for those things your phone isn't powerful enough itself.
The dock could even have external GPU for extra power.

To create a working linux based handset you need steps:

1. 1. License E7 design from Nokia
2. 2. ???
3. 3. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

Is this like gateway theory, where at first you were just watching the grass grow and now you advanced to trees?

I truly have to wonder why this has become the norm in IT.
Do you really need BSc or better degree to admin windows servers or do basic support?
The OP sounds too young to do successful IT freelancing, but then again I know few people who started their companies during/after high school and are still in business.
Best option would be to find apprenticeship from some medium sized company. Sadly those seem to be nearly impossible to find these days.

Publishing a textbook, legal. Collect funds without permission to publish it, Illegal.
Planning a terrorist attack, legal. Collecting funds to organize a terrorist attack, illegal, since you most likely won't have permit to do so.

(name your favorite hate/extremist group here) is collecting money to "do things".
If there is no law preventing them to do so, therefore it's ok to fund "doing things", even if those things could be considered illegal

This legislation has very valid reasons to exist, it prevents money laundering.
It's not bureucracy gone wild, just common citizen doing things without finding out all required details and getting slapped by government for not getting permits to operate.
This stuff is taught in elementary school, maybe the author should have paid more attention at Yhteiskuntaoppi classes.