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OSI Refers Novell Patent Deal To Authorities
WebMink writes "Worried that the unholy alliance of Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and EMC — hardly known for their collaboration — is establishing a patent troll called CPTN to attack open source software, the Open Source Initiative has announced that they have referred the Novell deal over to the German competition authorities."
Give them crap in all of Europe? Note that the world is rather larger than the USA...
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Is the poster arguing we should eliminate the patent system?
I don't know about original poster, but my argument would be on the line of eliminating patents for software. Copyright and trade-secret should be more than enough for software (even disregrading what the trademark can do: see the faec... errr.. pardon me... facebook I meant)
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
The summary does not state that this is what the listed companies are doing; it states that this is what OSI is worried they're doing. It's a small but critical difference. And the linked OSI statement explains quite succinctly why they're worried about this.
You can quote anything out of context to make it sound ridiculous.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
The concept of sarcasm is lost on you, isn't it?
You also might want to Google for phrases of the form "I for one welcome our new ___ overlords." That would be a start.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.