NoSoftwarePatents.com Industry Campaign Launches

Halo1 writes "The NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign has officially launched today. It has industry support from 1&1, Red Hat and MySQL AB. The website is already available in 12 EU languages (more to be added soon), and contains a ton of information about the dangers of software patents, including the myths that surround them. Hopefully, more large companies will join this campaign in the future."

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Trolls? TROLLS!

[Dark Lord Seth]

Intel's [chairman] Grove derides such patent holders for showing little interest in producing goods with their inventions in favor of demanding licensing fees from others. "We call them trolls," he said.
The Washington Post

As an occasional troll ( Think of it as a hobby ), I am insulted. >:(

Go Software Patents!

[Creepy Crawler]

Patent mathematics.
+ is .0002$ per use
- is .0002$ per use
* is .001$ per use
/ is 1.00$ per use
mod() is 10$ per use
sqrt() is .009$ per use

We acknologe that these mathematics are the only ones you can use, and all derivatibe works are subject to this cost times amount of operations done. EG: Limits are infinite +, so you are incessantly in the hole.... (enter lawyer BS)

Re:Main Page

[Halo1]

Someone can simply submit it again when CmdrTaco is editor on duty, so it can be posted as a dupe :)

Cheap Ass Mod Operation...

[mopslik]

+ is .0002$ per use
- is .0002$ per use
* is .001$ per use
/ is 1.00$ per use
mod() is 10$ per use

$10 for mod? Bah!

int cheapAssModOperation(int X, int Y)
{
int A, B, Z;
Z = X / Y;
A = Z * Y;
B = X - A;
return B;
}

Total cost = 1 division, 1 multiplication, 1 subtraction = $1.0012.