Otherwise known as minority pressure, lobbying groups and vested interest..

Prior Art! I existed before any of these patents; Sadly, quite a long time before.

If I was wealthy I'd pay the shortfall; Sadly I am not. Good on you and I wish you well. Don't waste your prodigious energy fighting it, I hope someone who recognises petty anti excellence envy helps you. Please make full use of your skills. Best, Paul from the UK.

Hacking for the purposes of disrupting a fellow nations systems and services or the 'retrieval' of it's IPR's and business information is both an economic and physical attack. I would leave the response to that to both a responsible military and cooperating civil crime organisation in the full hope they would be smart enough to track down the perpetrators, out them and stamp on them from a very great height. VMWare source in China? Someone should be very embarassed and many people should be in court, not the least those people who are not pursuing the crumb trail. I draw a distinction between that and 'outing' facts governments really don't want us to know about concerning their power, fiscal and liberty grabs on their own populations. Thank goodness we have people brave & savvy enough to do this. Otherwise we'd be in the horror of sliding out of demorcracy into the EU by a series of governments supporting the same policy of greater integration such as signing away our sovereignty without asking the electorate... Oh! we are! Fancy that. Help us, hacker & journos, please.

> the vast majority of them haven't found a way to use their own scarcity to their advantage Strewth, if I'd know I was that scarce and valuable I would have warned the guys that just 'insourced' our projects. BTW, 'insourcing' means bringing a project it into the company then sending it out to India. It sounds more cozy than 'I am sacking all indigenous programmers and employing truckloads elsewhere because I bought half the software house'. Good luck with that. I am going fishing.

Yes, all makes sense. Also Greece being a part of the Euro zone makes it stupendously expensive for Brits to holiday there. Greece has a high dependency on tourism and by making themselves an expensive destination for a country that historically has been a huge consumer of Greek holidays they have slashed the 6th richest nation off their menu. Smart. I'd like to go but a/ can't afford it and b/ can find better value for money close by. I would far rather we contributed to their economy in the time honoured fashion of fair competition instead of self indulgence and bailouts.

Great! I am so happy that HMR&C will be using their muscle to extract more taxes so that the UK government can send it straight to Portugal, Ireland, Greece or just fund the Common Agricultural Policy (i.e., subsidise France). If we are really lucky they'll send it to India who can afford aircraft carriers when we can't even afford the planes for the ones we have got, China who is extending it's high speed rail link, Uganda so Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni can buy the top-of-the-range Gulfstream G550 private planes, or anyone else interested in Freebies handed out by our loony government. Oh yes! and let's go on strike and deny the middle classes the services they are paying 4. Brilliant Britain.