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W3C Requests Eolas Patent Re-Examination
x0n writes "Verbatim from W3: Acting on the advice of the W3C HTML Patent Advisory Group, W3C has presented the United States Patent and Trademark Office with prior art establishing that US Patent No. 5,838,906 (the '906 patent) is invalid. W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee has written an unprecedented request to U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property James E. Rogan to take action to remove the patent to allow operation of the Web. Read the briefing." techsoldaten adds a link to this New York Times story on the move, and
bgalbs points out the W3C's detailed filing describing prior art provided to the USPTO Director's office, "along with a letter from Tim Berners-Lee asking that the so-called Eolas patent be revoked," writing "Here's hoping it does some good; between this and the Lotus Notes prior art, perhaps there's hope this will all go away."
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while I think the human alliance is more advanced, the orc hord is much more effictive at overcomming base defensives, perhaps there should be a human hord? The Night Evels suck, unless you manange to stay quite wile you build your forces.
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I knew I was not the only one who watched Nova's piece on string theroy last night!
Nothing new here. I know personally of another incident involving Microsoft firing or having fired full-time employees and temps over a blog. Harte-Hanks, the company that houses XBox tech support here in Austin is located on Metric about 2 blocks from where I lived for nearly 3 years. I had friends that worked there and stopped by on lunch. These guys do XBox tech support, making $9/hour and they all hate their jobs. I hate doing what they do. Harte-Hanks is a thankless company that won Microsoft's bid by driving a slave farm.
They deal with a lot of BS and many stupid callers. One started a Blog called XBoxIdiots or something. They thought it was private, but someone in Microsoft found it. They posted here about all their stupid customers. Everyone that had an entry there was fired. People that posted as few as one time in it we treated the same, including my good friend Ali. Losing that job was the best thing that ever happened to him.
That was giving away private company info though. Like the fact that the first generation nVidia MCP didn't do Dolby Digital right, but they made the customers pay to get it fixed. Of course Microsoft likes Macs. They make software on Macs. How else are they going to develop software for Macs without Macs to develop on. What's the logic in this?