The GPL is, really, a lot like water rights. Proprietary software is like water from a well, where the well owner controls access and distribution. Water from the nearby stream is free to all, as with GPLed software, but some collect and haul the water, charging their customers for the convenience of delivery.

The power supply is a discrete subsystem and should not be construed as sufficiently integral to the device it powers to allow such a broad patent. Will Apple now patent the replacement of a substation transformer to extract royalties from the power company?

... code bloat is.

It should be recalled that Firefox, which started as "Phoenix" and then became "Firebird" before becoming FF, was the lightweight, stripped-down, modular alternative to the Mozilla Suite. Do age, feature creep and the consequent bloat eventually make a mockery of all such aspirations for lean code?

Any behaviorist who believes that many common animals do not possess a sense of humor is an incompetent observer.

I suspect the majority of us working in deploying word processing environments at the time would tell you: WordPerfect was the better word processor; Word had better, prettier Windows integration. The integration, along with bundled "Works" versions, pushed the market to Word.

Perhaps you'd prefer the equivalent, but more pedestrian, "what goes around comes around"?

Well, perhaps an iRazr fight in a phone booth?

Apple is faced with the prospect of "live by the sword, die by the sword".

He is a self-righteous, vicious and violent monster who should never have sat on the bench.

I'm reminded of the German judge who acquitted Veit Harlan, the producer/director of the viciously anti-semitic film, Jew Suss, of war crimes related to the production. During the war he had a gypsy woman beheaded for stealing a head scarf during an air raid. The judge should have been in Spandau, not on the bench.