Call it "Office Software" and everyone will be happy.

As a philosophy major I have to nominate this word as the most abused word in business.
The fact that it is used in/by business at all is already an atrocity.
Google returns some gems:
"At Coldwell Banker Lunsford, our philosophy is simple. We bring people together. "
"Our Philosophy is that our first priority is to ensure the long-term health, wellbeing and longevity of your beloved pet through our superior and natural nutrition"

I'm not sure what these guys think "our philosophy" means ("our strategy"? "our adverrtising slogan"?) but they're pissing me off.

But I think a dark /. would be a good solidarity statement anyway. Geeks who weren't planning to do anything special in protest today might put some extra effort in.

I stand corrected. Sweet. If no senators support it what are we worried about? It can't become law without passing the Senate, per my hazy recollections of schoolhouse Rock.

Whatever wikipedophile.org is, it seems to have been blocked. I imagine that's because it, like Apple, was stealing ideas or something..

If I'm afraid you're going to "compete or be able to deliver something at the level of a Pixar or a Disney", couldn't I just get your ISP to block you off from the cloud because I don't feel you're doing enough to prevent Pixar/Disney intellectual property from being incorporated into your work?

An article for each senator who supports SOPA, with the corresponding senate.gov link

Seems like it should go without saying..

"... businesses are more responsive to their "constituents" then politicians are."
You're partially right here, but the main difference is (supposed to be) that business is responsive per the formula "one dollar, one vote" rather than "one person, one vote".

The US government has increasingly drifted away from the latter formula toward the former one, though.

Ditch the RIAA for real by going to ccmixter, jamendo, or any number of other sites and build up a collection of music that you can listen to without glancing over your shoulder every few seconds.

I just got this crazy idea for dealing with this problem:
When people make unauthorized copies of non-free material, prosecute them for doing that.
I know this goes against the legal mainstream (viz. find out what they used to do that and ban it); I'm just thinking out loud.

"Apple will follow suit eventually, they might resist for a while but with Android's rising market share and Google controlling Youtube, they're caught between a rock and a hard place and I'm sure they know it."

Or...

Watch this space for iTube?

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