Shadow Scotland minister William Bain agreed, saying it was a "hugely significant bill" but SNP spokesman Stewart Hosie derided it as a "modest little measure".
Jobs derided the delays it takes to share with a Zune, suggesting people just swap ear buds.
One company that offers a limited version of sharing in the field today is Kodak, the old film stalwart that is often derided even though it has managed the digital transition about as well as could be imagined.
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It was derided since release by longtime Mafia Wars veterans, and currently attracts only 20, 000 daily active users with 280, 000 monthly ones.
Though it was often derided for its lack of investment banking prowess and for not being number one in anything, PaineWebber kept profiting in its niche, growing earnings at a 30% clip over the past five years.
And Mr Prodi's apparent success in bringing Italy within shouting distance of the Maastricht test has numbed his right-wing opponents, most of whom approve of the government's euro ambition but have derided its efforts to achieve it.
Microsoft may well do something similar, and it may also be derided.
Attack of the Show is the flagship program for the channel, but was widely derided as worse than the show it replaced, The Screen Savers.
Several of the bill's authors have said the American public only is willing to accept citizenship, still derided by some as amnesty, if it comes with tough conditions.
Although derided as an amiable dunce by his enemies, it is clear from recent research that his knowledge and intellect were far deeper than they imagined.
Dismissed or derided for centuries by the Western scientific tradition, it is ironic that paradoxical thinking is emergent precisely because science has been forced to turn to things like Hawkings Paradox to deal with the apparent contradictory nature of the universe.
MoMA presented the once derided image as the foundation stone of Modernism and turned it into an icon.
He said there were safety concerns about alleyways becoming blocked with rubbish or trolleys, and it was a real problem that should not be derided.
The Department's arguments had been widely derided by those with knowledge of information law, and presumably it dropped its appeal after realising that it was hopeless to pursue this long-standing dispute any further.
Besides, say his allies, it's a little ironic that Baker, a man derided by his critics for being the ultimate pragmatist, is now being tagged for showing too much passion.
Even the endless prairie, derided today as "flyover country, " astonished those who first rode across it.
Other ideas, such as Ronald Reagan's beloved Laffer curve, were derided in spoof articles: Mr Gardner had a sense of humour, and used it to effect.
Though the iPod was derided by some as exorbitantly expensive at the time of its launch in 2001, it has amassed some two-thirds of the world market for hand-held music devices.
It also has become a symbol of our present cultural divide, its shoppers derided on websites, its big-box stores accused of having killed small-town Main Streets, its efficiency and pricing studied by academics.
Though at first often derided as tacky, the Certificate of Irish Heritage program was considered a sure bet as it would cost the government nothing, the follow through and any potential returns being farmed out to a Killorglin, Kerry company called Fexco.
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