IANAL, but I was under the impression that if you could demonstrate 'Prior Art' i.e. that what was being patented was in common use before the patent application, then the patent was invalid. Can somebody clarify this point ? I am pretty sure that Amazon weren't the first to do this.
The screenshots look a lot like Netscape but with a load of extra functionality thrown in. I wonder if it will be based on Mozilla ? Being open source it should be relatively easy to add in the functionality to make Moz into a full blown window manager.
Does anybody know whether Eazel are/will be working with the Mozilla team on this.
My prediction: computing will spur the creation of Open Societies, digital technologies being applied to open
government, different models for doing business, a revamping of intellectual property and a breaking down of
hierarchies, barriers between citizens and government, even some national boundaries.
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Why should I care, I've got my Rio, I've got mpg123. 'They' cannot 'suppress' anything.
That business will simply happen outside the US.
They obviously used the Micro$oft dictionary to look up the word 'innovation'.
Someone did once tell me about a cocktail made from Guiness and Baileys. Apparently it's called a 'nuclear winter'
It goes into /dev/null ;-)
I am sure between us all on Slashdot we could manage to do it. Then we can sue Amazon for breach of patent.
IANAL, but I was under the impression that if you could demonstrate 'Prior Art' i.e. that what was being patented was in common use before the patent application, then the patent was invalid. Can somebody clarify this point ? I am pretty sure that Amazon weren't the first to do this.
Does anybody know whether Eazel are/will be working with the Mozilla team on this.
Dude, that was cool ;-)
Damn...why didn't anybody tell me the first era was over ?
sounding a loud warning before ejecting your disks...
or being able to display the screen upside down...
Yah I noticed that too. It is curious.
This is the sanest thing I've read today.
Vim....vim....excuse me while I go and throw up...ah that's better :-)
Then they might not be having these problems with broken keys ;)
Plenty, myself included. So what was your point ?
My prediction: computing will spur the creation of Open Societies, digital technologies being applied to open government, different models for doing business, a revamping of intellectual property and a breaking down of hierarchies, barriers between citizens and government, even some national boundaries.