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PanIP May Be Standing On Shaky Ground

Posted by timothy on from the port-in-a-storm dept.

GoatEnigma writes "You may remember the name PanIP, the company trying to hold e-commerce hostage with their patents. Well, according to this update on the PanIP Defendants site, it might not be as easy as they thought. Apparently a little bit of successful legal opposition has slowed down their nefarious scheme. Tim claims to have found evidence to undermine their patents, although the article is very short on details as to what this evidence might be..."

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  1. For a copy of our evidence... by Qzukk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please send $699 to our licensing department in Utah. Thanks for your support!

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  2. GTK also being ported to Commodore 64 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am currently working on porting GTK to the Commordore 64. It even runs gnom. Once I've finished the port, I will release it, but for now, enjoy some screen shots.

    Screen shot 1
    Screenshot 2
    Screenshot 3.

  3. Maybe what we need to get the.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    U.S. government to wake up is a mass exodus of technical people from the United States to another country. The U.S.'s top statistic is income per capita, however that's hardly an indicator of a decent life. Already the U.S. lags behind Canada, Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Greece, and Japan, to name a few countries whose citizens enjoy longer lifespans than the average American. Granted lifespan isn't any better an indicator of a good life, but I'd thought I'd just throw that out. Any ideas which country to move to?

    1. Re:Maybe what we need to get the.. by winkydink · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Granted lifespan isn't any better an indicator of a good life

      Hold that thought.

      There's a huge difference between correlation and causality.

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    2. Re:Maybe what we need to get the.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I don't care where you go, just get the hell out of here

    3. Re:Maybe what we need to get the.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Longer lifespan is probably the result of a better diet. Any country where food is expensive would have a big advantage over the US. Toss in heavily taxed cigarettes and a socialized medical system for added effect.


      Life on the Canadian plan

      Hamburger at McDonalds....$17.95
      Pack of Marlboros..$12.50
      Taxes to pay for socialized medicine...$33,005
      Living longer with a lower standard of living...Priceless

    4. Re:Maybe what we need to get the.. by rokzy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I'd expect the average lifespan of a USAmerican to be the lowest of all "developed" nations, and many others, mostly because of crappy diets and the fact you kill each other too easily.

      US literacy rates aren't too great either.

      I suggest moving to Cuba. seriously.

    5. Re:Maybe what we need to get the.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Damn you Americans. Other countries start to pass you by and the next thing you're calling for mass executions of their technical pe...

      Never mind.

    6. Re:Maybe what we need to get the.. by Jerk+City+Troll · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Living longer with a lower standard of living...Priceless

      Eh?

      How do you figure Canada has a lower standard of living? Try less crime, less poverty, and the health care system is really no where near as bad as most would have you believe. Anyone else wanna back me up?

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    7. Re:Maybe what we need to get the.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yes, but we don't have many celebrities. And so few of them drive Hummers. It really pains me even to talk about it.

      Do you realise for just 80 cents per day we could buy drugs, SUVs, and the finest legal representation for an entire new generation of tanned celebrities, just like the US? It wouldn't even require a tax increase - the funds would be gradually siphoned off from things like advertising. Won't you reach into your heart and wallet, so we can be more like the US?

  4. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post

  5. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fIrSt pOsT, bIaTcH

  6. bunghole by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    gnaa reccomends anuses cheeses

  7. GTK+ is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It is official; Linux Magazine has now confirmed: GTK+ is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered GTK+ community when IDC confirmed that GTK+ market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all desktops. Coming on the heels of a recent Linux Journal survey which plainly states that GTK+ has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. GTK+ is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent comprehensive programming test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict GTK+'s future. The hand writing is on the wall: GTK+ faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for GTK+ because GTK+ is dying. Things are looking very bad for GTK+. As many of us are already aware, GTK+ continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    GNOME is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time GNOME developers Havoc Pennington and Owen Taylor only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: GNOME is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    XFCE leader Olivier Fourdan states that there are 7000 users of XFCE. How many users of ROX are there? Let's see. The number of XFCE versus ROX posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 ROX users. Nautilus posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of XFCE posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Nautilus. A recent article put GNOME at about 80 percent of the GTK+ market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 GTK+ users. This is consistent with the number of GNOME Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Sun, abysmal sales and so on, Eazel went out of business and was taken over by Ximian who sell another troubled Toolkit. Now Ximian is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that GTK+ has steadily declined in market share. GTK+ is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If GTK+ is to survive at all it will be among Toolkit dilettante dabblers. GTK+ continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, GTK+ is dead.

    Fact: GTK+ is dying

    1. Re:GTK+ is dying by borgheron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The first few times I saw this form filled posting it was funny. The second and third time it was amusing, the 10000th time it's not funny anymore, just f*cking annoying.

      Please take this offtopic stuff somewhere else.

      GJC

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  8. Re:He also sold hardcopy manuals. by jmt9581 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We GAVE peace a chance. Boycott the ANTI-war machine. If I had mod points, I'd moderate you up both for your comment and for your sig. :)

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