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.

Blanket bricking of cell phones, or selective bricking of those of "ringleaders", is an inevitable problem for the most peaceful and well behaved political rally with this kind of technology in government hands. Remember the "Arab Sping", and Tianenmen Square, and even the more recent and quite peaceful "Occupy Wall Street" protests.in the US, and understand exactly why and how law enforcement want this kind of power.

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.

They want to prevent people from using new communication technology to self-organize and make the existing government obsolete.

Or maybe it's that I want to use mobile as a platform to develop new communication technology that will let people self-organize and make existing government obsolete, but this renders the enterprise pointless.

Yeah, probably that second one.

Any chance to pin that on the content mafia or patent trolls? C'mon, at least ONCE such a story has to hit someone we can uniformly hate and not be controversial.