The container port that he is referring to is Felixstowe. This is the largest container port in England. I think his arguments run along the (perfectly correct) lines that the UK government is not going to take lightly any potential threat to Felixstowe.
If the dispute is over sovereignty, how could the ICJ refuse it on the basis that one of the participants is not a sovereign nation? National courts are not the usual venues for sovereignty disputes.
condone v.tr. 1. forgive or overlook (an offence or wrongdoing) 2. approve or sanction, (usu. reluctantly) 3. (of an action) atone for (an offence); make up for (O.E.D)
I don't think that multiplying the damages that were originally sought, as a deterrent to litigation, will have the intended effect. A large corporation could easily risk three times the losses that it may wish to intimidate a smaller entity with.
Reduce is not freely distributable (a la GPL) but the source code is available to allow debugging, porting, etc. The license cost is fairly modest, approx US 99 + tax/shipping for a personal license. More information can be found at http://www.zib.de/Symbolik/reduce
The idea of open patents is a good one, although as stated previously, just publishing the method should be sufficient to prevent a patent being granted. One concern that I would have with such a system is the potential for companies to point to the *lack* of some open-patent in such a system as evidence that no prior art for such a method exists.
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The container port that he is referring to is Felixstowe. This is the largest container port in England. I think his arguments run along the (perfectly correct) lines that the UK government is not going to take lightly any potential threat to Felixstowe.
If the dispute is over sovereignty, how could the ICJ refuse it on the basis that one of the participants is not a sovereign nation? National courts are not the usual venues for sovereignty disputes.
condone v.tr.
1. forgive or overlook (an offence or wrongdoing) 2. approve or sanction, (usu. reluctantly) 3. (of an action) atone for (an offence); make up for (O.E.D)
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I don't think that multiplying the damages that were originally sought, as a deterrent to litigation, will have the intended effect.
A large corporation could easily risk three times the losses that it may wish to intimidate a smaller entity with.
No, it's just you. I seem to have six or seven copies lying around - not sure where they came from.
Reduce is not freely distributable (a la GPL) but the source code is available to allow debugging, porting, etc. The license cost is fairly modest, approx US 99 + tax/shipping for a personal license. More information can be found at http://www.zib.de/Symbolik/reduce
If they can't handle SI units, how do you expect them to handle multiple languages?!*
The idea of open patents is a good one, although as stated previously, just publishing the method should be sufficient to prevent a patent being granted. One concern that I would have with such a system is the potential for companies to point to the *lack* of some open-patent in such a system as evidence that no prior art for such a method exists.