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  1. Unisys? Ecch. by yerricde · · Score: 2 · on Linuxcare Responds To Tim O'Reilly's Article

    sign a support contract with someone like UNISYS, Compaq (ex DEC)

    Buy support contracts from Compaq. Boycott Unisys for reasons discussed here.

  2. Yes (s)he can, in the US by yerricde · · Score: 1 · on Laptop Lojack?

    The US has a law where a patent can be filed up to one year after being published. This is what happened with LZW; Welch sent it to the journal, it got published, Uni$ys patented it.

  3. Is This More Important Than the Future of Patents? by YPrudhomme · · Score: 3 · on Red Hat Is Not Linux (dot org)

    Wow! I cannot believe that this kind of story is more important to slashdot.org editors and staff than the chance to get an Open Source advocate on the Patent Public Advisory Committee!

    The US Patent Office is starting a Public Advisory Committee to "review the policies, goals, performance, budget and user fees of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) with respect to patents." Can you imagine what could happen if Tim O'Reilly or Richard Stallman was on that committee?

    This is so important for the future of the Internet and Free Software, and we have a chance to make a big difference. Make your voice heard! There's a deadline of 4/28/2000 for the nominations. See this Pigdog Journal article or this Burn All GIFs page for more information.

  4. Re:About #^@%!$* Time! by yerricde · · Score: 1 · on Babbage Engine Printer Finally Available

    Somebody get me Ada, we've got work to do...

    I found GNAT (the GNU Ada compiler) on Google.

    Kill Unisys and all the rest of the software patenters.
  5. Re: Standards should not include patented stuff by Uberdog · · Score: 1 · on Geoworks Demands Royalties For All WAP Apps
    ummm...you couldn't have picked a better "theoretical" example.

    details are a little different, but it happened almost just like you postulated (except it's with the compression algorithm in the gifs...Unisys has a patent on that).

    http://burnallgifs.org/

    - Uberdog

  6. Unisys Licensing Relationship by spudboy · · Score: 2 · on Special Interview: Rob Malda and Jeff Bates
    Why did Slashdot choose not to either fight the bogus Unisys LZW patent, or to remove GIF images?

    Did andover.net pay Unisys to use GIFs on slashdot.org and its other sites? And, if so, why is a leading open source news site giving direct financial support to software patents?

  7. Precedent against LZW "contributory infringement"? by Glenn+R-P · · Score: 2 · on Internet Service Providers Not Liable for Content

    It looks as though this case could be used in an argument against UNISYS's idea of "contributory infringement" of their LZW-compression patent.

    UNISYS wants to hold web-site operators responsible for GIFs that appear on their site (search for "LZW" to see previous discussions here, or visit www.burnallgifs.org).

    This case might apply when the only GIFs on a site are those that are passed through by an ad broker, leaving the ad broker and not the site operator responsible for paying the GIF tax, which is the way I think it ought to be.

  8. Unisys ATTITUDE by Derek · · Score: 1 · on Are You Ready For Burn All GIFs Day?

    As I was reading the burn-all-gifs www site, I came across this little gem of an email from unisys.

    To:"'webmaster@burnallgifs.org'"

    http://burnallgifs.org/
    Is this the only way you've been able to get attention?
    Competition a bit tough there fella? The article above appears to have been written by a big crybaby.
    This kindof attitude really lights my fires. Say goodbye to all my GIFs.

    -Derek

  9. Yet another banner blocker by spudboy · · Score: 1 · on Cookies, Ad Banners, and Privacy
    This one also replaces some javascript popups with a pop-down page that just closes itself. Requires Apache proxy and mod_rewrite.

    GIFs are evil anyway.

  10. more ridiculous patents... by Mister+Attack · · Score: 1 · on Amazon.com Receives Patent for 1-Click Shopping

    This seems almost as bad as Unisys's patent on the LZW comression method. (see BurnAllGifs for more on this). Maybe we could have a "Burn Amazon" day? Destroy our cookies? Request that Amazon delete out credit-card info? Somebody needs to tell these people that patents are supposed to be for fundamental technologies, not mathematical algorithms or minor UI improvements...