Thats the thing. If they don't like it they can opt out at any time they want - there are plenty of technical fixes to solve this problem, so why are they resorting to lawyers?

I call him rare, and potentially unique. The fact that the blog you link to is a: one I already know and b: probably the only one I know says how rare they really are.

I've been saying this for _years_. I would write a long winded rant here but since I have written a blog entry on it ages ago you might as well read it there - Clicky here! Needless to say the guy is spot and the fact that there is now over 300+ comments on this thread means that he certainly touched a nerve.

More like Windows 95 since after all this time it seems that Ubuntu has only managed to create a bad knockoff. :)

I think when it comes to using terms like 'amazing' around Linux (and Ubuntu in particular) is that it has been so bad for so long that the fact that it works as it should is being treated like an amazing success, rather than an expected situation.