The Galaxy S III is... well... it's ugly. There's really no other way to put it. But why? Why is it ugly? I don't mean aesthetically, why is it ugly, I mean, "How did something like this ever make it out of Samsung's design studio?" I'll tell you how, it was never in the design studio. This phone design was born down the hall, in a room where the door sign reads "Samsung Legal."</p><p>
It was designed by lawyers.

Puzzling amount of hatin' going on for the Galaxy S 3, it seems.

"We’ve never been interested in rights broader than what we need to run Dropbox. We want to get this language right so that you’re comfortable using Dropbox with no reservations: what’s yours is yours. Instead of trying to add clarifications to the terms, we’ve rewritten this part from scratch..."<br />
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Suitable for those concerned about it?

"Now I don't think the Dropbox guys are evil or that they're trying to steal your content.  I'm sure they're perfectly nice guys just trying to provide a useful service. And it *IS* a useful service.  I wouldn't hesitate to use Dropbox for any non-confidential data/documents that I needed to sync to multiple devices. Just as I wouldn't hesitate to use the free Google Docs to coordinate a family reunion or maintain the stats for a little league baseball team.<br />
"But when it comes to confidential data, ESPECIALLY confidential data that belongs to clients or customers - data that, if leaked publicly, could do some real harm to my clients or customers...there is no way I'm going to willingly upload it to a service that acknowledges that their staffers (none of whom I've ever met) and the unspecified people and companies they work with can access (or even "monitor") that data. Not going to happen."<br />
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Note: you can encrypt before you upload. Then they can't read it.

"In its FAQ, Lodsys points out that these patents were temporarily owned by Intellectual Ventures, which according to Lodsys "then licensed these patents to additional companies."<br />
"In all likelihood, that's how Apple, Google and Microsoft were licensed. They are all investors in Intellectual Ventures and licensees of IV's patents. IV owns about 30,000 patents, and those companies pay for access to the entire portfolio. I doubt that they evaluate each and every one of those patents: they just get a license to the whole package. Most probably, that's how they were licensed, and those licenses are still valid if IV limited the right of later acquirers to assert those patents against IV's licensees."<br />
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The stakes, as this blog post explains clearly, are very high on all three sides - Apple, indie developers on all platforms, and Lodsys.