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Software Patents Affecting Futures Exchanges

Posted by samzenpus on from the ready-set-sue dept.

KontinMonet writes "The Financial Times reports European exchanges, brokers and traders are preparing for possible legal battles with Trading Technologies, a US software company. The situation is being made harder for potential defendants because the cases so far have all been sealed. No doubt, all those IP lawyers think this is a good thing..."

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  1. lick my balls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and suck my cock

  2. is it just me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    or is the layout to http://slashdot.org/ screwed?

    1. Re:is it just me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      it looks like it got haxed. can someone fix the main page? the bug reported is effecting everyone, not just firefox users.

    2. Re:is it just me... by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      try it when your not logged in.
      it seems to only come into effect with no account.

      (notice the lack of AC postings.... those that are here seem most likely be the "post anonymously" tickbox)

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  3. Re:Do I live under Republican US law or something? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Do Not Feed the Troll!

  4. OT:why is slashdot screwed up since last 2 hours ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Site no longer works in Safari or Firefox. Front page just loads as junk with the http header in the html and all this sort of stuff:

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    you can't see articles anymore

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  5. Re:OT:why is slashdot screwed up since last 2 hour by abdulwahid · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, strange, I just had some support calls from people using IE saying the same thing. I tried it with Lynx and also got garbage. My galeon works fine though. Hehe, you can see everyone is busy working in the company when /. goes down everyone starts complaining :)

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