I am prepared to stand corrected on the fact that this isnt being pushed at present by the insidious apple update. This isnt to say it wont be though. Also the reason i am unaware of it not being pushed by apple update, is because i removed all the apple crap off my system because of apple software not doing what i want it to do such as the horrific crap that is quicktime. You tell it not to do things like assocaite with certain file types and it completely ignores you and over-rides your choice regardless. If apple had alloewed me to make the decisions of what i want my computer to do then i might not have chose to remove all of it and have nothing to do with them.

How many of these new users actually even know they are new users ? I bet the majority of them are idiots who just click on the apple update for their itunes/ipod and done even realise Apple are basicaslly pushing crap onto their PCs that they done even know or want.

It is to with a License being granted..... If the magistrates say you got to have X amount of CCTV cameras in X locations to get your license granted...... NO CCTV Cameras = NO License ergo NO Business ALSO WTF does Slashdot refuse to put carriage returns into my posts ?????? and just post it in was huge paragraph ?

Why don't you ask him and let us know if you get a sensible reply. Contact him at tony.graziano@eicta.org

Although these particular patent trolls are no stranger to court cases and litigation. Have they gone after any companies are powerful as Novell before ? While Netware is none pretty much a dying beast, Novell have been around a long time and the patent portfolio is one fo the largest and they are also in the patent sharing project with IBM, Sony and others, would it be possible for these as a united group to crush companies like Acacia Technologies ? I am not sure if this is feasable thing by fighting patents with patents ? But Novell on their own have a huge amount of patents and a very very powerful legal team. I am often amazed by the strength of Niovell in these legal battled and waiting to just the right moment to issue a crushing blow to the attackers. While i am not fan of Novells patent agreement with Microsoft it does go to show that the big companies including Microsoft are not in favour the current patent system but it is a neccasary evil to get into. So it would be good to see some of these big patent holding companies actually use the own portfolios as weapons to destroy these patent troll companies and make it such a high risk business for the non producing trolls to get into. If you make it so expensive and of such risk for them there parastitc business of patent trolls wouldn't exist.

I have just checked this out with various searches and to say i am shocked at how bad the returned results were is an understatement. I agree with several other readers who say microsoft just dont get it.