Such as? The phone that turned out to have been launched after the iPhone announcement? Or maybe some photoshop job posted to some blog somewhere? The myth that Apple store the GUI from Xerox when they in reality had a contract?
The Nike "swoosh" is also a "minimalist design". Yet if I make a logo that looks almost the same, except I put a pink dot in the middle of mine, Nike are still going to haul my ass to court.
Do they? Is that the complete court filings compressed into one sentence? Where did you read the court filings? (And doctored documents posted by bloggers do not count as court filings.) Is it possible Slashdot posters and the judge have different sources?
So... Microsoft should not charge for Word because it is "based off" WordStar and WordPerfect? Excel should not cost more than VisiCalc since it is just a derivative? Please realize you CAN patent a particular implementation of an idea even if the basic idea already exists.
I am starting to wonder if not open-source zealots really are as communist as their detractors claim...
Sure, if you look form a vantage point of either libertarian utopism or totalitarian fascism (both considered "far right") then everything else seems "left wing". To a European, with actual socialist and communist parties, there is quite a larger right wing.
Don't forget the slaves used for menial labor too. Wonder if the Tea Party wants to remove the right to vote from black people? Or women? How far back do they want to take politics?
The Sun is the main net input of energy, yes. But that does not mean man cannot affect how that energy is distributed in the climate systems on the planet. Which has been shown to be likely.
But humans are cutting down plants instead, e.g. deforestation. For plants to absorb and store CO2 they need to grow. As in, trees growing for decades. And when did small-scale experiments have any bearing on large-scale effects? Does your funny little party trick deal with the effects of increased CO2 absorption in the seas for instance?
So: One of the strengths of open source (the ability to fork it if you want to) becomes something bad if Apple does it? "They have taken" as if the KHTML devs were physically ass-raped or something when WebKit was established. I cannot remember having seen anything in any open-source license that required you to be grateful for the gift of this software...
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The former military dictatorship south of the Demilitarized Zone.
Looking at their history, even the South Koreans are relatively new to this democracy thingamabob...
I take it this "solandri" dude contacted the Samsung legal team with his amazing discovery?
No?
Then what was the point?
Such as? The phone that turned out to have been launched after the iPhone announcement? Or maybe some photoshop job posted to some blog somewhere? The myth that Apple store the GUI from Xerox when they in reality had a contract?
The Nike "swoosh" is also a "minimalist design". Yet if I make a logo that looks almost the same, except I put a pink dot in the middle of mine, Nike are still going to haul my ass to court.
Do they? Is that the complete court filings compressed into one sentence? Where did you read the court filings? (And doctored documents posted by bloggers do not count as court filings.) Is it possible Slashdot posters and the judge have different sources?
You're posting as if Nokia's suit didn't happen.
So... Microsoft should not charge for Word because it is "based off" WordStar and WordPerfect? Excel should not cost more than VisiCalc since it is just a derivative? Please realize you CAN patent a particular implementation of an idea even if the basic idea already exists.
I am starting to wonder if not open-source zealots really are as communist as their detractors claim...
I guess "no one" includes Samsung's highly paid lawyers. Why is that, do you think?
The 50% of marriages that end in divorce before "death do them part" say: not necessarily.
Sure, if you look form a vantage point of either libertarian utopism or totalitarian fascism (both considered "far right") then everything else seems "left wing". To a European, with actual socialist and communist parties, there is quite a larger right wing.
Don't forget the slaves used for menial labor too. Wonder if the Tea Party wants to remove the right to vote from black people? Or women? How far back do they want to take politics?
STFU is a poor excuse people use when they run out of actual arguments. Now try finding an anti-GW scientist who is not either
a) receiving a paycheck from an energy/oil company
b) a scientist in a non-related field.
The Sun is the main net input of energy, yes. But that does not mean man cannot affect how that energy is distributed in the climate systems on the planet. Which has been shown to be likely.
But humans are cutting down plants instead, e.g. deforestation. For plants to absorb and store CO2 they need to grow. As in, trees growing for decades. And when did small-scale experiments have any bearing on large-scale effects? Does your funny little party trick deal with the effects of increased CO2 absorption in the seas for instance?
I think he meant Occam's Razor. Maybe?
Pascal's Wager is always more fun when you substitute Vishnu/Zeus/Odin for God.
AppleTV becomes a game console
At least that they add an app store to it and extend the iOS SDK to cater for it as well...
What? Who are reviling them? How are their products trash? Are you sure it's not just in your anonymous little head?
Commodore did not even create the Amiga, they just bought the guys who did... (And Scala ported their software to the PC eventually anyway.)
We need Ballmer at the helm for a few more years so that Microsoft can make even more bone-headed moves on their way down.
That was a compact strawman. And OS X is far more open than the line ending with System 9 ever was.
You resign at the top, you get fired at the bottom. :)
Spoken like a hateful and jealous underachiever who has never actually used an Apple product.
... and Visual Studio only runs on Windows. So what?
Or are you saying everyone should switch to Eclipse-based IDEs?
So: One of the strengths of open source (the ability to fork it if you want to) becomes something bad if Apple does it? "They have taken" as if the KHTML devs were physically ass-raped or something when WebKit was established. I cannot remember having seen anything in any open-source license that required you to be grateful for the gift of this software...