Patent troll rule #1: Go after the deep pockets.
Patent troll rule #2: Go after the high profile lawsuit. When more notable companies get sued, you get more press, and therefore more respectability when you enter the negotiating table (their bread and butter is settlements).
I hear that worked out real well for SCO - deficient and bankrupt.
There is another alternative, which could happen... all development moves off-shore. Heck, RedHat could just move almost everything to Europe and trade there. (Alan Cox refuses to visit the US because of the stupid software patent issues).
Sell the core system in the US with from RedHat US with no Window Managers, and a link to repositories to download all the Window Managers you want, from software-patent-is-bad countries. Sell the full system everywhere else.
This is just one more step for the US in its continual technological decline. Whole industries are already gone - ram, most hard drives, lcd screens. Why not almost all FLOSS development?
"ALL companies have ex-Microsofties on the payroll, with some recent hires. Microsoft is the largest software company in the world. Go ahead, ask around. I'll bet you have a former Microsoft employee on your team!:)"
None here. If there were, I'd be making their life miserable.
Its sad that history keeps repeating itself. The list of countries where the US supported oppresive regimes, and the ultimate economic cost involved, would be interesting reading.
1. What you are. (Iris scan, biometric readings, fingerprints, etc.)
2. What you have. (ID card, USB flash drive, random number security key, etc.)
3. What you know. (Password, etc.)
You are going to see a lot more systems use a "two out of three" approach. I actually thought, at one point, that this was going to be a requirement for Vista. I guess not.
It IS a Vista requirement.
What you are - a sucker;
What you have - more money than brains;
What you "know" - "I need Innernet Exploder to get on teh Web Toobs"
"Microsoft is willing to work with ANY Linux distribution that will sign an agreement to the effect that they are including Microsoft "property" in their release.
You might want to look at Ballmer's latest words about suing Red Hat users."
Novell has disagreed publicly about any "Microsoft Property" in linux. Ballmer is a liar and a buffoon, we all know it, and the rest of the world is slowly buying a clue about how crap Microsoft really is (Vista - the new Windows ME - relive the DOS 4 experience today!!!).
Microsoft can no longer compete, and they know it. Why else resort to FUD pudding and outright lies?
> "Microsoft, Apple,... are not the enemies they are competitors."
"Microsoft is an enemy. Apple is a competitor."
There, fixed it for you.
Don't be under any illusions - Microsoft is an avowed enemy of linux and open source in general. Otherwise, why all the BS and FUD over alleged patent violations.
Competitors compete. What Microsoft has done in the past, and continues to do, is not competition. It goes well beyond what's legal (for example, the latest FUD from the ABalmernation on patents would be a Lanham Act violation, except he said it in the UK).
When you can't compete, you cheat. Let us know when Microsoft starts competing...
>"t doesn't matter how a US citizen gets to Cuba, if a Cuban stamp is on their passport they will be arrested when they come back."
I was being facetious. Guess I should have included the good old html 5.2 <sarcasm> tag...:-)
This whole Cuba ban is unjustifiable. The Monroe Doctrine and the whole "spheres of influence" thing is dead. The US criticized other countries for imposing travel bans on their citizens, all the while doing the same, and causing a lot of hardship. Then there's the Bay of Pigs fiasco. The US continues to make the same mistakes today as they did then.
>"Ms. Fiorina's past behaviour notwithstanding, the story submission is rather incendiary. Surely a more civil account of the situation could have bdeen found?"
Why? This is Faux News we're talking about. You can be sure that everyone over at CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, BBC, etc., are dancing in their cubicles!
> "What companies like Google don't realize is that it's the uncertainty that kills customers. Most of us won't really care if you're going to buy Urchin, move all the best pieces to Google Analytics, and then kill it off - just tell us what the fuck you are doing so we can plan accordingly. Dicking people around by pretending to support what you know will be a dead product is a good way to get people to hold grudges against you."
"Think of it this way, the big corporation has money to burn on this issue and can easily wait out the small developer. It's extremely likely that the small developer, who can't afford a high powered lawyer, will run out of legal funds very rapidly and have to give up on the case. Microsoft isn't after money, at least not directly. They're much more interested in halting the development of an OS that, over time, has the potential to crush their business."
That only works in the US. In other words, Microsoft will be behind the continual decline of the US in yet another field it was once a proud leader.
Time to grab your congress-critters' ears and let them know that software patents are poisoning the wellspring of the US's future economic base.
Ballmer is a buffoon. Its a wonder that more people don't see that. "OMG H'e Teh Preznik of Mikros0ft!" Big deal, he's still a buffoon, a circus carney trying to fool all the people all the time. The problem he has is twofold:
Fewer people are taking him seriously;
The company he works for, and its products, are held in disrespect by their own customers.
His continual campaign of mealy-mouthed childish rants against linux and open source in general just gives open source more street cred. After all, if the threat of open source can reduce the heads of Microsoft to gibbering idiots over and over, it MUST have some strong ju-ju.
"t wasn't what you did when you were in Cuba that broke the law, it was boarding a means of transportation with the intent of travelling to Cuba in violation of an Executive Order (I'm unclear if there was a congressional law passed later codifying this embargo)."
So if they go to Canada or Mexico first, THEN get on a plane to Cuba, its okay?
"You can only break the laws of a sovereign nation whilst you are within the jurisdiction of that nation. That is part of the definition of sovereignty. If you are outside the USA, you can't by definition break US law. Whatever you did has to be illegal in both places."
Nope. Go to Thailand, pay to have sex with an 8-year-old, and you WILL be sent to jail in the US, Canada, or any number of nations. There are some crimes that transcend international boundaries.
The US maintains sovereignty over its citizens no matter where they are. This had direct consequences in the Lockheed bribery scandal, where Lockheed employees were paying bribes overseas. Their defense was it wasn't illegal if they weren't in the US when they made the bribe.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Corporation#Lockheed_bribery_scandals
Under the Berne convention, you don't get damages for unregistered copyright - just the ability to say "cease and desist." The mint is asking for $$$$.
On the question of trade marks, when did the Canadian Mint register 1 cent as a trade mark, and did they renew the trade mark as required every 15 years?
Not on a single penny, nickel, dime, loonie or twoonie. also not on the $5, $10 and $20 notes I just looked at . They don't have a copyright notice for the amount, just for the whole design, and only for 2006, 2005, and 2004 respectively. The mint has NO copyright claim to the term 1 cent, or any other denomination, and they WILL lose.
There is NO copyright notice on ANY Canadian currency.
Any copyright old enough to defeat a prior use claim will have expired
Any copyright recent enough to be enforceable is defeated by prior use, not just in Canada, but other countries
If they insist, we'll all just switch to Canadian Tire money. After all, eBay accepts it (Canadian Tire bought a bank - they're very heavy in the credit business).
Of course its FUD. Eolas has already said publicly that they won't go after anyone else. The targeted Microsofts Internet Explorer, and Microsoft alone.
> "Don't do the CRIME if you can't pay the FINE !!"
This was a civil trial - Capitol vs Thomas - not a criminal trial.
The level of proof required was much lower than a criminal trial.
Since its a civil trial, she can just go bankrupt (the jury award isn't a fine resulting from a criminal trial - fines for criminal convictions aren't generally dischargeable in a bankruptcy).
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Patent troll rule #1: Go after the deep pockets.
Patent troll rule #2: Go after the high profile lawsuit. When more notable companies get sued, you get more press, and therefore more respectability when you enter the negotiating table (their bread and butter is settlements).
I hear that worked out real well for SCO - deficient and bankrupt.
There is another alternative, which could happen ... all development moves off-shore. Heck, RedHat could just move almost everything to Europe and trade there. (Alan Cox refuses to visit the US because of the stupid software patent issues).
Sell the core system in the US with from RedHat US with no Window Managers, and a link to repositories to download all the Window Managers you want, from software-patent-is-bad countries. Sell the full system everywhere else.
This is just one more step for the US in its continual technological decline. Whole industries are already gone - ram, most hard drives, lcd screens. Why not almost all FLOSS development?
"ALL companies have ex-Microsofties on the payroll, with some recent hires. Microsoft is the largest software company in the world. Go ahead, ask around. I'll bet you have a former Microsoft employee on your team! :)"
None here. If there were, I'd be making their life miserable.
Its sad that history keeps repeating itself. The list of countries where the US supported oppresive regimes, and the ultimate economic cost involved, would be interesting reading.
Canadian Tire Money - paypal accepts it ...
No problem. I don't have to run faster than the polar bears - just faster than YOU! :-)
It IS a Vista requirement.
There - fixed it for you.
Its because in Soviet Yahoostan "minifying" your pages embiggens YOU!
"Microsoft is willing to work with ANY Linux distribution that will sign an agreement to the effect that they are including Microsoft "property" in their release.
You might want to look at Ballmer's latest words about suing Red Hat users."
Novell has disagreed publicly about any "Microsoft Property" in linux. Ballmer is a liar and a buffoon, we all know it, and the rest of the world is slowly buying a clue about how crap Microsoft really is (Vista - the new Windows ME - relive the DOS 4 experience today!!!).
Microsoft can no longer compete, and they know it. Why else resort to FUD pudding and outright lies?
> "Microsoft, Apple, ... are not the enemies they are competitors."
"Microsoft is an enemy. Apple is a competitor."
There, fixed it for you.
Don't be under any illusions - Microsoft is an avowed enemy of linux and open source in general. Otherwise, why all the BS and FUD over alleged patent violations.
Competitors compete. What Microsoft has done in the past, and continues to do, is not competition. It goes well beyond what's legal (for example, the latest FUD from the ABalmernation on patents would be a Lanham Act violation, except he said it in the UK).
When you can't compete, you cheat. Let us know when Microsoft starts competing ...
>"t doesn't matter how a US citizen gets to Cuba, if a Cuban stamp is on their passport they will be arrested when they come back."
I was being facetious. Guess I should have included the good old html 5.2 <sarcasm> tag ... :-)
This whole Cuba ban is unjustifiable. The Monroe Doctrine and the whole "spheres of influence" thing is dead. The US criticized other countries for imposing travel bans on their citizens, all the while doing the same, and causing a lot of hardship. Then there's the Bay of Pigs fiasco. The US continues to make the same mistakes today as they did then.
>"Ms. Fiorina's past behaviour notwithstanding, the story submission is rather incendiary. Surely a more civil account of the situation could have bdeen found?"
Why? This is Faux News we're talking about. You can be sure that everyone over at CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, BBC, etc., are dancing in their cubicles!
> "What companies like Google don't realize is that it's the uncertainty that kills customers. Most of us won't really care if you're going to buy Urchin, move all the best pieces to Google Analytics, and then kill it off - just tell us what the fuck you are doing so we can plan accordingly. Dicking people around by pretending to support what you know will be a dead product is a good way to get people to hold grudges against you."
You must be new here; it worked for Microsoft ...
In Soviet Googlestan, product updates kill YOU!
> "In summary: hey got "forked-over" after forking over."
Of course, if it were OSS, it could just be forked ...
Anyone got a link to the complete specs of what their log analysis tool does?
"Think of it this way, the big corporation has money to burn on this issue and can easily wait out the small developer. It's extremely likely that the small developer, who can't afford a high powered lawyer, will run out of legal funds very rapidly and have to give up on the case. Microsoft isn't after money, at least not directly. They're much more interested in halting the development of an OS that, over time, has the potential to crush their business."
That only works in the US. In other words, Microsoft will be behind the continual decline of the US in yet another field it was once a proud leader.
Time to grab your congress-critters' ears and let them know that software patents are poisoning the wellspring of the US's future economic base.
Ballmer is a buffoon. Its a wonder that more people don't see that. "OMG H'e Teh Preznik of Mikros0ft!" Big deal, he's still a buffoon, a circus carney trying to fool all the people all the time. The problem he has is twofold:
His continual campaign of mealy-mouthed childish rants against linux and open source in general just gives open source more street cred. After all, if the threat of open source can reduce the heads of Microsoft to gibbering idiots over and over, it MUST have some strong ju-ju.
"t wasn't what you did when you were in Cuba that broke the law, it was boarding a means of transportation with the intent of travelling to Cuba in violation of an Executive Order (I'm unclear if there was a congressional law passed later codifying this embargo)."
So if they go to Canada or Mexico first, THEN get on a plane to Cuba, its okay?
"You can only break the laws of a sovereign nation whilst you are within the jurisdiction of that nation. That is part of the definition of sovereignty. If you are outside the USA, you can't by definition break US law. Whatever you did has to be illegal in both places."
Nope. Go to Thailand, pay to have sex with an 8-year-old, and you WILL be sent to jail in the US, Canada, or any number of nations. There are some crimes that transcend international boundaries.
The US maintains sovereignty over its citizens no matter where they are. This had direct consequences in the Lockheed bribery scandal, where Lockheed employees were paying bribes overseas. Their defense was it wasn't illegal if they weren't in the US when they made the bribe.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Corporation#Lockheed_bribery_scandals
In Soviet MezoAmerica Mayan Calendar rolls over YOU!
Under the Berne convention, you don't get damages for unregistered copyright - just the ability to say "cease and desist." The mint is asking for $$$$.
On the question of trade marks, when did the Canadian Mint register 1 cent as a trade mark, and did they renew the trade mark as required every 15 years?
Not on a single penny, nickel, dime, loonie or twoonie. also not on the $5, $10 and $20 notes I just looked at . They don't have a copyright notice for the amount, just for the whole design, and only for 2006, 2005, and 2004 respectively. The mint has NO copyright claim to the term 1 cent, or any other denomination, and they WILL lose.
It's not a joke, but the mint will lose in court.
Of course its FUD. Eolas has already said publicly that they won't go after anyone else. The targeted Microsofts Internet Explorer, and Microsoft alone.
> "Don't do the CRIME if you can't pay the FINE !!"