Novell may have "announced" this, but I don't think there's much chance of it appearing on the iPhone anytime soon. Sun tried to write a JRE for the iPhone and Apple todl them outright there was no way it was going to allow it, so I seriously double they'd be fine with .Net

Well, strictly speaking, Google does have a clause which states that you cannot use the advertising services of another provider while you are showing Google Ads (you are allowed to host ads yourself, but not from another 3rd party provider). While this may SEEM predatory, I think this is pretty much the norm - back in the day when I used banner exchanges, they had the same rule. So really, if the government is going to go after Google for that, then it would probably have to be an industry change.

I'm not sure that's entirely accurate. I think Apple TRIED to be involved in KHTML (as the original codebase for WebKit), but I believe they tried to force the KDE developers to accept non-disclosure agreements before being able to see Apple's changes (which kind of defeats the point of open-source).

As far as I can tell, WebKit is now as far removed for KHTML as Mac OS X is from FreeBSD (keeping in mind Mac OS X was sort-of based on FreeBSD 5 but apple never kept up with the FreeBSD main branch).

These sorts of things start becoming very grey, I think. I remember using OS/2 Warp 3 years ago, and their network client had "Microsoft" on it. So, based on the previous poster's position, would that mean I shouldn't have used network connectivity under OS/2 because it didn't explicitly say IBM?

Can you name me some commonly used open-source projects not for the Mac OS X which Apple has worked on? I may be wrong, but I personally can't think of any, but I'm open to correction on this point.