I am interested in this tablet, not because it is best / most up to date, but it pushes Linux. What I mean is, it's not relying on a locked down version that the likes of Google pretend is Linux. It's not just a question of free as in no cost OS, but freedom to do what you like... which is not the same as installing re-engineered OS versions but might brick your device as that's how the hardware was designed.

To that end, I'd love to see a 100% Linux phone, nothing relying on Google with it's bits locked down or tracking

If you become a shareholder, will they use your name and address to spam you with adverts? ;)

As an experiment (and desire to use it) I tried signing my emails, but I got a LOT of complaints from people using Microsoft Outlook etc. What MS email package did was just append the text code of the signature to the email, making it look very long, and full of nonsense text. Other packages understood what to do and just displayed the email as normal, with a padlock which you could click to read the signature.

I haven't used a signature since as too many use Microsoft Outlook... although maybe it has been fixed??

You will get blank stares because if you're like the UK, not one word has been mentioned in the press about the ACTA treaty. Even today, you can watch foreign news on protests in a few countries (there's a week long protest going on in Poland who signed the treaty), but despite the UK signing the ACTA treaty - not one word in the British press about it or that there are even protests abroad about ACTA, no mention of how devastating it will be for internet freedom democracy and rule of law.

No mentions in the press is censorship and just what proponents of ACTA like.

The Chinese are continuing to buy a solid assets (like gold), other countries are dumping the US Dollar, the US are still spending and printing money. And yet, people still think that "Intellectual Property" is the saviour of an economy (same stupidity in the UK).

Have no sympathy for the RIAA / MPAA and the rest of these trade cartels who have REFUSED to update their business model. Actually not quite right, they've taken to suing their own "customers", who in turn are dumping their products and spending the money elsewhere.

Looks to me like you have an example already of "One World Government", with the USA acting like it's laws apply to every other country on the planet. How does that look to you freedom and democracy loving people?

They could counter-sue the music industry for running an illegal cartel.

But more likely, based on how things in Ireland work when it comes to votes on the European Union, they could be thrown a token few million here and there, and a law will be passed. They are an easy nation to bribe.

I have been with Mandriva since version 9, it was the distro I picked which got me into Linux, so have been with the distro for a lot of years now. However since the beta of Mageia 1 came out, I jumped ship - I didn't want to deal with Mandriva's new menu system for a start.

The problem I see with a shareholder revolt is, the company should have found a way to not fire their main developers in the first place. Now they are working on the community Mageia Linux version, and who is left at Mandriva?

IMO if they wanted a better distro, you should get more people to bother to report bugs so they can be investigated, not think someone else has found it. This should be made easy for non technical users so that others with more experience may try re-creating the bug. The various distro webpages to report a bug are way over the top for a new person to understand and report a bug.

I myself among now lots of others reported various Nouveau free nVidia driver issues where there are problems if you want to switch to the real nVidia driver to get 3D. Stuff like Compiz, Google Earth, or BZFlag won't work with the Nouveau driver.... but 2D stuff works fine with Nouveau.

And what is there to prevent a government transmitting from the ground to disrupt the satellite transmission?