[statictype]

You're missing my point. I'm not really arguing about which billion dollar company did or didn't copy trivial/non-trivial patents from another billion dollar company.

You seem to think that anything legally allowed is ethical. That if Apple has an obligation to their shareholders to do X and X is legal, then it's totally ethical for Apple to do X.

That's not what ethical means.

[ThePherocity]

Since ethics isn't fixed, then what watermark do you suggest to define a universal ethics. It's like euthanasia, is it ethical for a doctor to commit murder if it's to stop terrible suffering? It was ethical to own slaves, but not ethical to have them work on a Sunday. Nowadays, having staff work Sundays is ethical (although your probably a jerk) though it's no longer ethical for them to be slaves.