The first thing you do when you find your company is getting ready to spiral into the toilet is to introduce a new logo. Right?

Instead of charging $50 with DRM, charge $10 with no DRM. That would be a less expensive to produce and support. In addition, MANY more people would be willing to pay just $10. If even 50% were pirates, they make up the lost income from the lower price through additional sales, less support costs, and less development/licensing for DRM. And talk about customer satisfaction!!! They just don't get it through, do they?

Let's use "gratis" and "liberated" software, and maybe throw in a "pro bono" for good measure. It will properly distinguish the intent.

Apple is NOT (I repeat - NOT) afraid of being sued - even less afraid of a _threat_ of being sued. Especially the nickel and dime stuff that would be done for App Store _potential_ violations. Apple just wants to make more money off the App Store, so they reject as much good free stuff as possible, so that people will go _buy_ the non-free apps, so that they can make their (more than fair) share.

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Then we can see what happens. :)

Ummm... no. If the "Windows 8" certification requires Secure Boot, it doesn't mean that Windows 8 will only work on that hardware, it means that hardware would only work with Windows 8 (unless they also supply a way to turn the secure boot requirement off). The "buy new hardware" would only affect people who are ... "buying new hardware."

Tell me... When has Microsoft ever let anti-trust legislation stop them from doing something monopolistic? ... Never! They do it, then fight in court until they loose. It's like they will steal from others until someone stands up to them, then they continue to steal, until they are found guilty, and then still continue to steal until someone comes along and hits them up the side of the head.

Don't be so naive as to think that this is only about the desktop. The Internet is run mostly on Linux, NOT Windows. If you include all devices that run some version of Linux to all devices that run some version of Windows, Linux wins. Period. That doesn't mean that this isn't mostly about the desktop. If and when Microsoft comes out with a Windows 8 tablet version, if they put the same restriction on that hardware (again, FOR Windows 8 Certification, not that Windows 8 would run on other hardware that isn't certified), then it would be useless to try to run Android on the tablet (even though it would probably improve the tablet significantly). This is all about control. Microsoft wants to be in control. They see the market slipping away from them as the mobile market takes control of personal computing. The only way they could insure they would have some hardware penetration into the mobile phone market was to buy Nokia. Right now there are twice as many Android phones as there are iPhones in the US, and Microsoft hardly registers as an "also ran." What does their future look like, really? They have to find a way to get control back, or they will loose it all eventually.

I can think of a gesture that I'd like to wave at Apple and Microsoft.

One of the things that most interests me in this type of discussion is the fear that people have of Mormon baptism for the dead. Let's look at this for a second. If the Mormons are right (God exists and accepts that baptism for entrance into "heaven"), then the baptism might be helpful (if the dead person accepts the baptism). If the Mormons are wrong, then what harm did it do the dead person? It certainly can't condemn them (since they weren't involved). So the fact is - it is either valuable, or inconsequential. There is NO other possibility. So I ask, why all the fuss? Really!!

Well at least there were three of us. I quite looked forward to the new episodes each week. I think that there was more to the show than most people cared to figure out. It was definitely more gritty and more of a moral dilemma show. Not many shows would have written a story where the captain suffocates one of his men to make it so that he didn't have to die alone when he was left behind. I thought much of the stuff was very thought provoking. I'll miss it.

Well that would be the second best. The best would be to just die.

Jobs is just a big baby. He doesn't play well with others. He gets upset when he doesn't get his way. The only way he lets you play with his toys is if you pay him. I bet he even wears diapers.

Maybe they could be nice?

So why not show what the other browser won't do it, but safari will - in video?

Didn't think my ass. And get around to it? Ditto.

So, you want me to install Windows on my computer, (and given your fanboy status, I don't think you really want me to do that), or buy a Mac (you'd like that, wouldn't you?) so that I can promote Apple products? Are they going to pay me? Please look at your first comment to my posting for more information.

Safari for Linux? Not likely. Apple's afraid to do that, or maybe just not competent enough to do it (which I doubt). Or maybe they are just too arrogant and self-centered.

Why does Apple want to make you download and install Safari?

Since they are already checking your browser to see the demo, why not have an alternative video file for each demo if your current browser doesn't support the individual demo? Why not try to show what their browser can do instead of making you install it in order to see what it can do. They could even put 1080 videos on Youtube (oops, that might allow someone to comment on the video).

What is Apple afraid of?

That's an interesting statement coming from a guy that was quite heavily into psychedelic drugs (and who knows what else) at one point in his adult, corporate life. I'm not saying he's not right about not wanting to sell porn, but definitely sanctimonious, especially if he hasn't claimed to have cleaned up his act (I-found-Jesus sort of statement).