So, who gets to define which claims are false or misleading? Oh, people who are up to their eyeballs in the pharmaceutical industry, whether or not they're actually employed in it? Fantastic!
Dr. Gloria Bachmann, she's not going to be published anymore for being a drug company's whore
Unfortunately, she's already made her money from the debacle. Undoubtedly she'll make more to keep her mouth shut wherever possible from this point on.
Let's make this simple. Anyone who had direct knowledge of these actions, and did nothing about it, should be held to the same standard of accountability. Federal charges should be filed on the lot of them.
While there is a certain element of dark humor to my OP, given the Russian track record of disappearing people who cause problems for the government, I'm genuinely surprised this guy hasn't been in a tragic car accident by now.
Maybe I just haven't been keeping up with the news on HIV research, but this would seem to be a truly novel approach to preventing transmission. Excellent work!
That would be my second vice. I'll probably quit smoking, but I sincerely doubt I'll ever quit caffeine. Talk about cognitive issues when I can't get my coffee...
I just can't wait for national ID cards here in the States! It'll be great for plausible deniability: "Oh, you say you saw ID? Prove it was really me."
I completely agree with everything you've said. I think you missed my point, which was that continued development on OpenOffice wouldn't be impeded in the slightest if Oracle decided they didn't care about it.
In no way was I implying that Oracle would actually take that course of action.
I don't think you understand how these things work. It's the same as the fear-mongering over the fate of MySQL. There is no issue; OpenOffice is deployed by default on a huge number of Linux distributions. It's a certainty that dev teams from a variety of backgrounds would maintain it even it Oracle completely stopped caring.
This has nothing to do with "Client - Server - The Web."
Oracle could stop caring about OpenOffice tomorrow, and the community would simply pick up and continue development on it, business as usual. Nice try, though.
I don't justify copyright violation. I have a Pandora subscription ($36/year is a pretty damned good deal for what you get), I buy individual tracks from iTunes and Amazon, I support independent artists directly, and I refuse to buy CDs unless they're the kind burned in the basement studio of an indie group I happen to like.
I find it rather childish of you to assume I'm at all interested in violating someone else's copyright.
Industry with a track record of charging insane prices for crappy products, ripping off artists who they claim to represent, and developing a business model of suing their own customers in gross abuse of the legal process is experiencing financial difficulties. We'll be providing blow-by-blow coverage.
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... for a class-action lawsuit over their attempt at preventing class-action lawsuits.
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So, who gets to define which claims are false or misleading? Oh, people who are up to their eyeballs in the pharmaceutical industry, whether or not they're actually employed in it? Fantastic!
Dr. Gloria Bachmann, she's not going to be published anymore for being a drug company's whore
Unfortunately, she's already made her money from the debacle. Undoubtedly she'll make more to keep her mouth shut wherever possible from this point on.
Let's make this simple. Anyone who had direct knowledge of these actions, and did nothing about it, should be held to the same standard of accountability. Federal charges should be filed on the lot of them.
While there is a certain element of dark humor to my OP, given the Russian track record of disappearing people who cause problems for the government, I'm genuinely surprised this guy hasn't been in a tragic car accident by now.
Because cars explode every day, you know.
Maybe I just haven't been keeping up with the news on HIV research, but this would seem to be a truly novel approach to preventing transmission. Excellent work!
You're right. It would have been much more effective to simply have the guy killed.
/me waits for news reports of his untimely demise.
Sorry, people are stupid the world over. We certainly don't have a monopoly on populations largely comprised of morons.
That would be my second vice. I'll probably quit smoking, but I sincerely doubt I'll ever quit caffeine. Talk about cognitive issues when I can't get my coffee...
I'll simply start telling folks I'm a schizophrenic to justify my pack a day habit.
Would you want to see what happens when I try to quit?
You're either a troll or completely retarded. Allow me to enlighten you: most personnel in the Air Force don't serve in planes.
Just run it on Unbreakable Linux.
/me goes back to his Debian rig...
Whooooosh.
Now it's truly redundant!
Why no, Mr. Policeman, I don't seem to have my National ID card with me.
Tax dollars in the UK. Amazing.
I think that portion of the comment answers the question.
Whooooosh.
I just can't wait for national ID cards here in the States! It'll be great for plausible deniability: "Oh, you say you saw ID? Prove it was really me."
That's the most effective car analogy I've seen on /. yet. Well played, sir.
I completely agree with everything you've said. I think you missed my point, which was that continued development on OpenOffice wouldn't be impeded in the slightest if Oracle decided they didn't care about it.
In no way was I implying that Oracle would actually take that course of action.
I don't think you understand how these things work. It's the same as the fear-mongering over the fate of MySQL. There is no issue; OpenOffice is deployed by default on a huge number of Linux distributions. It's a certainty that dev teams from a variety of backgrounds would maintain it even it Oracle completely stopped caring.
This has nothing to do with "Client - Server - The Web."
Oracle could stop caring about OpenOffice tomorrow, and the community would simply pick up and continue development on it, business as usual. Nice try, though.
News flash: the President is a black guy.
I don't justify copyright violation. I have a Pandora subscription ($36/year is a pretty damned good deal for what you get), I buy individual tracks from iTunes and Amazon, I support independent artists directly, and I refuse to buy CDs unless they're the kind burned in the basement studio of an indie group I happen to like.
I find it rather childish of you to assume I'm at all interested in violating someone else's copyright.
Nice :).
Industry with a track record of charging insane prices for crappy products, ripping off artists who they claim to represent, and developing a business model of suing their own customers in gross abuse of the legal process is experiencing financial difficulties. We'll be providing blow-by-blow coverage.