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Eolas Sues World + Dog For AJAX Patent
helfrich9000 writes "Eolas has filed suit against 23 companies (guess where), including Adobe, Amazon.com, Apple, eBay, Google, Yahoo!, JPMorgan, and Playboy. At issue are a pair of patents (US 7,599,985 and US 5,838,906), one of which (the '906) was successfully used in litigation against Microsoft Corp for a $565 million judgement. Says Dr. Michael D. Doyle, chairman of Eolas, 'We developed these technologies over 15 years ago and demonstrated them widely, years before the marketplace had heard of interactive applications embedded in Web pages tapping into powerful remote resources. Profiting from someone else's innovation without payment is fundamentally unfair. All we want is what's fair.'"
Socialism/communism implies making peoples decisions for them.
If freedom is good then socialism is necessarily evil.
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better everyone miserable than a slim margin having the right to be happy while the majority suffer and die as unwitting slaves.
Democracy and communism are not mutually exclusive.
Communism and freedom/self-determination are mutually exclusive.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I would argue we as humans in a civilized society are obligated to provide basic necessities to our fellow man. Of course the libertarians will gnash their teeth at the thought of being asked to be part of a civil society at all.
Funny how every one of those things you listed with the exception of the military can be done cheaper and more effectively by the private sector.
DOT = employees getting paid above market wages to hold up "stop/slow" signs.
City water utility = Meter readers getting paid above market wages to drive a car and punch numbers into a PDA
FDA = Yeah, that's worked out real well. I trust the UL much more than I trust the FDA. I've yet to have a UL approved appliance burn my house down. I have had FDA approved food put me in the hospital.
The internet, yeah it was partially developed by DOD and then properly turned over to the private sector when the commercial uses become apparent. You think we would have seen the rush of online innovation if the government was still in charge?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Yes, because history has taught us time and again that when left to their own accords, the private industry can police itself.
It policies itself better than government in many respects. If you ran a private business in the manner that the US Government (or my state government for that matter) is run it would be bankrupt in short order and cease operating.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Quit. Ask for a Raise. Start your own company.
Your bosses probably don't steal from you, or anyone else, so saying they steal is slanderous or libelous. And If I were your boss, I'd fire you for it.
That is, unless you work for someone like Madoff. And then that is your own damn fault, see my first paragraph. And you should be reporting them to the government if you have knowledge of this "fact".
You aren't a slave, unless you believe you are.
And lastly, I don't know how you live with yourself if you're enabling your bosses to steal. Because you're part of the problem. Read Paragraph one.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.