One last thing: There was some concern about the two satirical categories this year, Most Likely to be Ambiguously Accused of Patent Violation and Most Likely to Get Users Sued. People felt that they might draw a legal target on the winner, and that it might be potentially embarrassing. Most of you get what we were trying to say, but we still wanted to make sure our message was absolutely unmistakable.
We changed the two categories to Most Likely to be Ambiguously and Baselessly Accused of Patent Violation and Most Likely to Get Users Sued by Anachronistic Industry Associations Defending Dead Business Models. We hope that this compromise removes any legal teeth behind these categories while still preserving the sarcastic and satirical tone we intended.
Sorry to change things around on everyone, but if you’re upset about the change you probably didn’t get the point. 🙂