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An Insider's View of Software Patents

Posted by timothy on from the broken-record-indeed dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ross Gittins at the Sydney Morning Herald has published an interesting insider view of software patents. This kind of thing is starting to be a hot issue down here with the US-Australia Free Trade deal about to be ratified and bring our intellectual property laws in line with Micros^D^D^D^D^D^D^D America's."

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  1. Re:"Re:Nothing for you to see here." The answer is by mattjb0010 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Other neat tricks on Google:

    1. Do a search on "1" and then "2" ... "9" and for each number plot the number of hits returned versus the number, and you end up with something like Benford's Law.
    2. On Babelfish, enter a phrase in one language, and keep translating it through the set of languages until you hit a limit cycle.

  2. Re:Tending the coals by Mike+Hawk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have forwarded your offer to bomb a government building to John Ashcroft. Have a nice day.