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Not to disrupt kartu and Harry's interesting conversation with more war cries from consumer factions -- which generally confuse vast domineering companies with personal individuality (as the Linux gent on p. 2 of this thread summed it nicely) -- but it seems to me that the various sides of the Apple/Google debate are actually complimentary.

No, Apple was not first or worst to sling patent infringement charges at the necks of competitors like Odd-Job's horse shoes. However, Steve Jobs's fuming about his sudden life's mission to destroy Android does make him sound like a flaming bicarbonate of ass.

So no, Apple isn't especially evil so much as it is adequately evil. It's the domination of corporations-as-people that achieves all this evil in general.

However, SJ's pox on Android and its family does seem breathtakingly petty. It also suggests his plans could be less firm in the rage-driven details than the right buttock of Proteus.