Slashdot Mirror
NCR Patents the Internet
An anonymous reader writes "We all know about NCR's lawsuit against Palm & Handspring, but I haven't seen much press about patent infringements they are claiming against some of the biggest sites on the planet. According to documentation that a friend's company has recently received, their patents protect everything from keyword searching to product categorization. Patents to look for (and filed in 1998) include 6,253,203, 6,169,997, 6,151,601, 6,085,223 and 5,991,791 . IMHO, this is absolutely outrageous and is likely to cause billions in both legal fees and eventual licensing fees (eBay, Amazon and MSFT have already licensed from NCR). How is this not the lead story on every site? every day? Maybe because no one wants to get sued for having an online business."
The people who work in government aren't the best and brightest. They are the scourge of mankind. Their sole reason for working is to do just enough to get by and to do anything it takes to protect their shitty job. Go work on a military base. The soldiers aren't bad it's the civilians, total fucking cocksuckers (99.99%).
Remember you get what you pay for in government and no one wants to pay.
" Perhaps in your rather limited perspective of reality, yes. I happen to think "evil" is a somewhat more serious label, reserved for actions a bit more "out there" than cheating. But hey. Whatever makes you tick."
Lie, cheat, steal. You are evil. Pretty simple. Any five year old can understand that.
" Well, I suppose if you can label Bill Gates as "evil", you're entitled to compare open source with the preachings of jesus. I mean, what the heck, right?"
Yes I am. I did. You haven't refuted it so I guess I am right. Go read the bible or the quoran or the budhist texts. You know what they all say? They say that people should work for the common good and not about accumulation of wealth. In fact in the bible it says love of money is the root of all evil. I figure that the richest man in the world must love money more then anybody else which also makes him the most evil person on the planet.
"Yeah, sure. I'm pissed to no end."
You are so pissed that you hang around on slashdot trolling. You are so pissed that you are having an argument with me. You are so pissed that you actually spend your free time here on slashdot denigrating someting instead of kissing you wife/girlfriend, walking your dog, or visiting your friends. Yes you are pissed and you don't even know why. Like I said you should spend some time meditating on what you actually believe and why you believe it.
"As a card-carrying member of humankind, I feel vaguely insulted by this."
you need not be. Kurt Vonnegut once said "There is nothing you can do for god that he can not do for himself. Take care of your fellow man and let god take care of himself". OSS is about taking care of your fellow man. You can think of it as a giant gift to mankind. people all over the world working to make something that they give freely to the world. This is marvelous, it's noble, it's important. It's the highest expression of generosity.
"That's an impressive monologue, but I have to wonder what part of my previous response you didn't manage to digest?"
you never said why you are "pro" microsoft. You only said that you don't like slashdot and you think OSS is shit. So why are you "pro" microsoft?
Also you never answered the question I asked in the first place. Why microsoft? Do they really need more advertisement from you? Why not Shimano, 3COM or Johnson and Johnson? There are plenty of corporations in the world to choose from why did you choose ms to align with?
War is necrophilia.