Side note - slight irony in the fact the favicon for the website is the (now obsolete) Sun logo on an MS patent
Sun at least had a fairly solid server business which kept them going for a while; SGI servers were generally only used in places with a strong presence of SGIs on the desktop.
SGI also had some classics - "XFS is great, it'll never need to be fsck'd!" Few months later, the fsck for xfs was released... It was, in general, a good OS with some odd quirks as I recall.
Patent trolls exploit the fact it's cheaper to roll over & pay the fee than it is to fight, where if you win, you lose.
I'm looking at a laptop upgrade now (old one is 6 years old and creaking...) which will end up running Windows 7 as there's little reason not to get it.
Reporting the outcome of engagements which may or may not have resulted in the death of civilians isn't something we should be suppressing unless it actively endangers someone.
Cue the world's smallest violin, playing just for Joe...
I'd like to say these kind of things are made up, but no.
"I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." - Corporal Hicks, in "Aliens"