The point is not who is the end user. The point is what constitutes a contract in general.

This type of thinking is akin to straightening the ship that's sinking on one side by drilling a whole and sinking its other side too. How about enforce laws equally for everyone to start with? Would Sony be contractually liable if you sent them your own version of EULA in the [e]mail? Would you be able to take that piece of [e]mail to the court and argue against Sony? How about your bank? Facebook? Amazon?

Well, it's a good thing Apple thought of this in advance for you and designed the phone with an easy, inexpensive user replaceable battery.

It can be ignored when convenient.

MS has monopoly on Windows = JK Rowling has monopoly on Harry Potter. Great.

MS Windows has 95% market share in the consumer desktop market and is abusing its monopoly position to undercut and eliminate products/companies in OS and other areas with anti-competitive practices = JK Rowling sells/licenses 95% of all end-consumer books and is somehow using this dominant position in the market to undercut and eliminate book, magazine and newspaper publishers, for example, by coercing the printing/publishing/pressing equipment manufacturers to not allow printing any/most content from other writers, or she will dramatically increase her Harry Potter licensing price, making those manufacturers unable to offer Harry Potter books at existing prices, effectively shutting down their business (because that's effectively shutting out 95% of their business).

Sure it would be the same thing if that's what was happening.

I don't disagree with you - I just blame Apple. It seems like they should write their buggy driver in userspace.

Unless, of course, he is required by his employer / labor union / etc. to turn over his hash after voting. This IS a major problem.

Government tracking of who voted how is a bad idea in general. If you get a hash that identifies you and tracks your vote in the database. Later if the database is questioned for any reason, anyone looking into the data can find out how you voted. The data would also be available for sale under the table, and it's just asking for trouble in general.

The way it works now and the way it should work is when you vote, your vote enters the pool of other votes and can never ever be tied back to you in any way.

Microsoft, if they wanted to, could distribute Arora under GPL and IIS under their own license in one software package - one has nothing to do with the other, besides both of them using the HTTP protocol.

Because GPL is not violated if all you share with the GPLed program is a protocol.

Exactly. I don't understand the issue. It will look like this:

[ (GPL library) - > (GPL program) ] (protocol) (non-GPL program that doesn't use the GPL library)

What protocol is doesn't matter. It can be a standard I/O, local socket, or a network protocol like FTP/HTTP/etc. Can a GPL web browser like Arora communicate with a proprietary web server like IIS? Of course it can!

If you asked RMS, he would have you offer everything under GPL, but that's the choice you can make on your own. It has pretty much nothing to do with the GPL library.