Declare all works as of 2010 to be public domain, and no new copyrights will be granted on anything.
Ignoring the fact that no one would be brave enough to try and pass a bill like that, I believe that is a little too harsh as you're not giving time for the markets to adapt and try new models. It'd make a lot of businesses bankrupt.
If you really wanted it to work you'd need to reduce copyright on all products to 10 years. At least there is then motivation for creating new works.
There's a 3D shader technique called Phong shading. If Phong shading was patented then Blinn-Phong would never have be discovered which is a change in math. Blinn-Phong is faster and provides more accurate results.
All software is a form of math, one technique can have completely different looking math but produces the same results such as the prior example. You can not patent math because you didn't invent anything, you just discovered the formula which was already there.
Whatever you think about RMS and FSF you have to agree that getting rid of software patents would benefit everyone, globally in the software industry. From the commercial hardware vendors, all the way down to the hobbyist BSD developer.
I can't wait for it to happen in the states as I predict it will also trigger the fall in the few countries that also allow software patents.
From a Linux desktop standpoint alone it would finally allow for built in support of DVD, MP3s, etc. Some projects such as GIMP won't have to work around patents to get the features they want built in. Open source driver support might increase..
Even from a closed source perspective Microsoft wouldn't have to worry about getting sued and having to purchase massive amounts of patents to defend itself. They could focus of providing a better user experience without restrictions that patents encumber you with.
approach to fighting spam. It worked in this instance. Here is why it won't work again. (One or more of the following may apply to this particular criminal, and (s)he may have other flaws which are not listed.)
( ) The spammer was dumb (X) (s)he lived inside the united states (X) They made too much money (X) They had been doing it too long (X) They stole from a corporation (X) Didn't leave the country quick enough
Specifically, your technique fails to account for
(X) few spammers get caught
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
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While I can certainly understand the reasons why some people go with Linux, I have run all but dry of understanding for programmers that willfully pick Windows as their platform of choice.
From you link I believe that whole thing is taken out of context.
Microsoft has some awesome stuff, but it also has some really crap stuff. I believe the quote above is referring to the all windows crowd that do not evaluate their tools and instead just pick Microsoft, because Microsoft is God and nothing is better.
You may freely use and distribute the code presented in these tutorials under any license EXCEPT the GPL or any other license which denies authors their right to do as they please with their own code.
I had these problems with Firefox 2 exactly running the default Ubuntu version. I downloaded the firefox 3 beta 3 from the website and it is so much better it is unbelievable.
- Where as before FF2 would use around 500 meg it now only uses around 50 meg - Flash no longer crashes the browser - Javascript no longer crashes the browser - Those long pauses as it is doing something that stalls the browsers operation are gone.
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Thank you, I'll now be switching my services to someone that values my privacy.
If you really wanted it to work you'd need to reduce copyright on all products to 10 years. At least there is then motivation for creating new works.
Shouldn't they be tracking your iris so they can see exactly what you are looking at rather then just the direction you are looking in?
comparing apples, oranges and bananas.
OLPC - kids education
Classmate - older kids education
Eee - web browsing and IM
You can't just put a dump truck on it you insensitive clod!
Care to mention any examples of what you are talking about? Didn't think so, because it's universally known that the opposite is true.
You can use http://endsoftpatents.org/
There's a 3D shader technique called Phong shading. If Phong shading was patented then Blinn-Phong would never have be discovered which is a change in math. Blinn-Phong is faster and provides more accurate results.
All software is a form of math, one technique can have completely different looking math but produces the same results such as the prior example. You can not patent math because you didn't invent anything, you just discovered the formula which was already there.
It's clearly defined here
Whatever you think about RMS and FSF you have to agree that getting rid of software patents would benefit everyone, globally in the software industry. From the commercial hardware vendors, all the way down to the hobbyist BSD developer.
I can't wait for it to happen in the states as I predict it will also trigger the fall in the few countries that also allow software patents.
From a Linux desktop standpoint alone it would finally allow for built in support of DVD, MP3s, etc. Some projects such as GIMP won't have to work around patents to get the features they want built in. Open source driver support might increase..
Even from a closed source perspective Microsoft wouldn't have to worry about getting sued and having to purchase massive amounts of patents to defend itself. They could focus of providing a better user experience without restrictions that patents encumber you with.
Everyone wins... apart from the lawyers..
Your finding advocates a
( ) technical (X) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. It worked in this instance. Here is why it won't work again. (One or more of the following may apply to this particular criminal, and (s)he may have other flaws which are not listed.)
( ) The spammer was dumb
(X) (s)he lived inside the united states
(X) They made too much money
(X) They had been doing it too long
(X) They stole from a corporation
(X) Didn't leave the country quick enough
Specifically, your technique fails to account for
(X) few spammers get caught
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) taking out one spammer, 10 more pop up
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Prepare to be sued for violating his patent, doesn't matter who made what first you thief!
It's something that should be discouraged throughout the entire software industry.
Ridiculous this made the front page, the games section I could understand but main page? W...T...F...
Microsoft has some awesome stuff, but it also has some really crap stuff. I believe the quote above is referring to the all windows crowd that do not evaluate their tools and instead just pick Microsoft, because Microsoft is God and nothing is better.
Same with clothing except it might have incorrect spelling or didn't quite pass other QC tests.
I don't care about your needs to "successfully fight cyber crime" which to me translates to "successfully sniff out rats".
I care about speed, anonymity and integrity of data.
You must be using windows, on Linux it doesn't do this, you just download the zip file, extract and run.
I can send email through gmail fine in Beta 3. It must be something on your end.
I had these problems with Firefox 2 exactly running the default Ubuntu version. I downloaded the firefox 3 beta 3 from the website and it is so much better it is unbelievable.
- Where as before FF2 would use around 500 meg it now only uses around 50 meg
- Flash no longer crashes the browser
- Javascript no longer crashes the browser
- Those long pauses as it is doing something that stalls the browsers operation are gone.
I couldn't believe the difference.
You just made Slashdot boring. : /