>What blows my mind is how so many geeks have flocked to Samsung's side in the patent debacle of late.

Anyone but Apple.

With so many apps some may slip through the review process, but they can be remote wiped, unlike side loaded apps.

You can write apps in C or C++ on iOS if you like, but the framework (Cocoa) is everything.

I think it will be quite a long time, if ever, that all parties will agree there should be no intellectual property.

I disagree, if it's genuine, why not tell them if the opportunity presents itself.

If you are in sales, yes.

Holy smokes, how big is it?

Depends on which language you'd like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

8 GB bzip2-compressed, for the English Wikipedia, if you download the dump that contains only the current revisions of article-space pages. Much bigger if you want the one with every historical revision.

Thanks. Important to mention that is text only.

small enough to have offline on your phone, as several apps do.

The text of a large percentage of the current version of English Wikipedia, without discussion pages, is that small.

Forking does not lead to spooning. This sounds like it will quickly become an impenetrable rat's nest. Better to fight it out on the one true source, Wikipedia.

The Internet is already made of "rat's nests" like these. DNS records, BGP route tables, cross-domain embedding, all of these are pulling together information from lots of inconsistent sources to render a page in your browser, and it works pretty well.

Google is a rats nest but you can eventually find what you want, I go to Wikipedia first.

The problem Wikipedia is having at the moment is that some people have taken over sections of it as their own "turf". And there will always be a holy war between the completionists and the deletionists, etc. With a federated wiki, you get to pick what kind of info you want to see, and who gets to curate it.

If deletionists had been running the show when Wikipedia got started, it would have failed.

Internet hipster facepalm.

>What were they thinking when they sent such a large force ?

Take it up with New Zealand. Though you can hardly blame them as Kim is clearly a nutjob.