Yeah, I read the website too. It just seems like that's one of the important things to put in the summary.

And when is Software Freedom Day 2012? Isn't that what the summary is supposed to be about?

If a business only charges actual cost for a product, they cannot make a profit. I want some companies to earn a profit, especially if I'm a stakeholder. If we're lucky, we have jobs (and paychecks) that are a result of some company making a profit. No, I'm not talking about hookers-and-blow-for-everybody kind of profit, either.

Do you really think what carriers charge is how much it actually costs to send a text message?

You're right they design them for free. Someone else selling ARM chips makes money for ARM as well.

Deductive reasoning is important to the philosophy of science. The philosophy of science is however not science. It is philosophy. Science relied on testability. Can you develop an experiment that would prove or disprove the idea that the universe and everything in it are the work of a creator?

For some reason I thought you were thinking about boobs that were in Superman V.

I agree with you. The US is busy enough nation-building, liberating people from oppressive regimes, and showing those North Koreans what's for. And the liberal media whines that we're not funding science too? The only science we need to fund in the US is the kind they show on CSI--that show is awesome. God bless 'Merica.

I won't react.

Do we work for the same company?

From TFA: "In early 2010, more than 20 mobile apps popped up for college basketball's March Madness tournament, 'so why not have similar apps to track campaigns?' asked Bill Dudley, group director of product management at Sybase365" The reason is that more people actually care about March Madness than care about the presidential election. I bet you can prove it too by viewership and attendance of games vs debates/rallies. Does this nugget of insight make me an analyst?

Punch 'em in the troat.

It's not as explicit in the Constitution, but if you read the Declaration of Independence, you will notice that the states are free and independent states.

I can still innovate all I want. The US's obsession with IP shows me that the US doesn't want new products to be manufactured or sold here. There are plenty of people that aren't Americans, and they like jobs and products just as much as we do.