IANAL either, but, BS! Microsoft is a corporation. There is no reason for a corporation to get the same protections a person does. There is no "person" on trial here. Be careful of giving all sorts of "rights" to corporations.
Actually I believe that is the point of a corporation. The law considers a corporation an entity similar to a person. The reason for this is so a corporation can purchase and sell things as an entity, not as a business owned by a person. If you have a sole proprietorship business and you go bankrupt, guess who they go after, or if you die the business is gone. Where in a corporation the liability of the members of that corporation is limited, and control can be passed after the founder is dead. That's why Bill Gates was a CEO, not _the_ owner.
The palm isn't meant to do everything possible. It is meant to be a companion to a computer that can do all of that. Although it may be cheaper than a laptop, with all of the accessories, and batteries that you would go through, your cost it just about the same after a couple of months. While this would make the plam able to great things, who needs those things in a business meeting, or when they are trying to find a phone number. And then what do you do if you want to plug in your ethernet card and read your email, or download a palm app, but you need your extra hd space to store it? Then put another slot in it! If you want that get a pc104 setup, and forget the palm. As for running Linux on my palm, that would be cool, until I had to type in a long command line.
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Actually I believe that is the point of a corporation. The law considers a corporation an entity similar to a person. The reason for this is so a corporation can purchase and sell things as an entity, not as a business owned by a person. If you have a sole proprietorship business and you go bankrupt, guess who they go after, or if you die the business is gone. Where in a corporation the liability of the members of that corporation is limited, and control can be passed after the founder is dead. That's why Bill Gates was a CEO, not _the_ owner.
The palm isn't meant to do everything possible. It is meant to be a companion to a computer that can do all of that. Although it may be cheaper than a laptop, with all of the accessories, and batteries that you would go through, your cost it just about the same after a couple of months. While this would make the plam able to great things, who needs those things in a business meeting, or when they are trying to find a phone number. And then what do you do if you want to plug in your ethernet card and read your email, or download a palm app, but you need your extra hd space to store it? Then put another slot in it! If you want that get a pc104 setup, and forget the palm. As for running Linux on my palm, that would be cool, until I had to type in a long command line.