lol, "not"

If you mean get the stock price low enough for Microsoft to buy them then they are right on target. But considering their CEO is an ex Microsoft exec I am nit surprised.

Tell that to RIM and Nokia, money alone is not enough when you have incompetent leadership.

For an IT person it is much easier, why should I wait on hold to get a HDD or MB replaced under warranty. My time is valuable and when I need to spend an hour on the phone to get something like that done it is really a waste of time and energy. Also when doing end user support a lot of times it is faster and easier when I can fire back an email with detailed instructions and screenshots on how to fix whatever issue it is. For those times when the problem is too complicated then you pick up the phone do a remote control session and resolve the issue. There is a fine balance between all of them.

But did he try and sue and try to prevent anyone else from painting rectangles?

I don't really see how Samsung had any choice in the matter. Should they wait until Apple stops them from selling any products? Google is the only one that has not really played a large role directly in all of the litigation. I can also say that it is going to get worse before it gets better since the US Patent Office has just given Apple a bunch of absurd software patents for things that Android and other phone manufactures have been using for years.

I wish I had some mod points to give you.

http://phandroid.com/2012/07/31/pre-iphone-design-concepts-add-weight-to-samsungs-defense-in-patent-trial/

Isn't Samsung from South Korea?

I am hopping that Apple gets smacked own as hard as Oracle did in the Oracle vs Google case. A flat rectangle with a touch screen is not a patentable design. Plus Samsung had many similar prototypes in the works before the iPhone even debuted.

As an IT person who deals with a lot of small companies this is what I hate most about QB. I don't really care how much the user interface sucks but why not put the data into a SQL database?!? Anytime someone mentions a QB problem I shutter. In Japan they have a piece of software called yayoi hanbai instead of QB which actually uses an SQL backend and even though the interface is all in Japanese migrations are a breeze.

I am pretty sure this has been their goal but they will wait a little longer until they are cheaper since Nokia is showing no signs of switching to something Android based. They probably would have had better luck with a Meego phone.

Try Libre Office, this is one of the many improvements they have made.

You do know that there are DRM features in the kernel right?