If one would have to be an idiot to write server sotware (because one would be liable for things beyond her or his control), only idiots will write servers. If this sounds glib, it's only because the suggested regulations here are so utterly insane.
I think it's also important to try and forge connections between software people like and your DE. Photoshop sells Macs even though there were many years when it was better-supported on Windows.
Not really what I was saying. What I'm saying is that the same zombie falsehoods are repeated in every thread. Even worse, falsehoods are rewarded with upvotes because, more and more, bias trumps accuracy.
It becomes tiresome to correct them over and over again only to see that once again the highest voted comment is based on the falsehood that "Apple is reaping the whirlwind" because "they [took] the first shot."
And inasmuch as you can generalize about a diverse community it's not a great leap to go from the observation that these factually inaccurate comments are often the highest upvoted to say that when it comes to IP Apple is commonly treated here as the big bad.
This is despite the facts that:
(1) Apple is consistently the most innovative company and IP is supposed to incent and reward innovation.
(2) Apple has paid out more for patent infringement then all their innocent lamb competitors (put together?).
What does that even mean? You've got three unprovable terms in there: consistently (What does it mean to be consistently innovative? Wouldn't Apple's copying of Android's notifications system contradict this?), most (What metric are you using to measure innovation that gives the highest number to Apple?), and innovative (How do you define innovation in this context? Patents filed (bogus)? Profit margins (not correlated)? Intensity of reality distortion? Lines of code?).
While this is very sad, I think he would have wanted us to remember that working in a field so young that you have occasion to mourn people who built its foundations is inherently exciting.
