asdfghjkjnmhb

Being fired - don't know.

But if you are a minion at, say MSFT, imagine how many layers of management a sign-off would go up before somebody said - yes you can assign copyright to that little utility to Gnu.

You forgot the bit where if you work for a company you need to get approval from 18levels of management and corporate lawyers on 3 continents who have never heard of free software - and you are on the receiving end of the political flak.

Or if you work for a US company and are writing FOSS on your own time - you still risk getting fired because one of the managers or lawyers (who have never heard of FOSS) think it breaks your employment contract and it's a cheap way of reducing head count.

I expect all the phones will become linux but you won't know.

The underlying core OS will be a linux derivative, but the layers on top will vary so much that switching from one brand to another will be the same difference as switching between Symbian and Motorola-OS is now.

Self correcting - first you talk to yourself, then you start answering yourself, then you argue with yourself - then you sulk and stop talking to you.

>The process is to meticulously explain code to an inanimate object

Isn't that what students are for?

""Honestly, I don't need a computer more powerful than my Motorola Droid. ""

But the phone does.

Originally the ARM was a tiny, 30,000gate, cpu core in the corner of the ASIC that did all the phone stuff. If the ARM gets powerful enough it can do all the protocol specific stuff and you no longer need an ASIC. So reduced parts count, quicker development, easier to support new phone standards etc.