If I made my own digitalized copy of these public images and my copy is very similar to that of NPG, who is the owner? My work has the same value that their.
I wonder how they can copyright a work!
From zero to infinite, patent promotes innovation in proportion with development time and effort.
The more investments are required to create something, the more patents will help.
And of course, patent on ideas, concepts, methods and so one do not promote innovation.
Wolfram Alpha must be compared to Wikipedia, not to Google.
And to be honest, since it is in its first day, it must be compared to Wikipedia in its first days.
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If Google was directed by all these "advisers" I doubt they would have 0.01% of market shares.
It is funny someone want no eat french cheese because rainbow warrior (the act of somes assholes) and advises to eat german cheese instead ;)
I have heard of some persons condemned to pay millions $ for downloading some songs in USA, that is definitively a better justice.
Actually it is 5 years, and 205 mFLOPS. With Tegra 3 it is now 3-4 years. And with this GPU, even less than that.
Recently Microsoft Office corrupted line art horribly in my ODT documents which made me quickly switch to LibreOffice.
Some major authors have been omitted: - A.E. Van Vogt. - P.J. Farmer. And some good books too: - Ubik. - Hellstrom's Hive
They had also something similar to Instant they never used in production.
If I made my own digitalized copy of these public images and my copy is very similar to that of NPG, who is the owner? My work has the same value that their. I wonder how they can copyright a work!
Biased stats. Most of them come here to verify the compatibility with IE6 and other browsers...
From zero to infinite, patent promotes innovation in proportion with development time and effort. The more investments are required to create something, the more patents will help. And of course, patent on ideas, concepts, methods and so one do not promote innovation.
Yes this is why BBC patented hyperlink in *** USA *** (And by the way UK is ruled by EU laws).
Wolfram Alpha must be compared to Wikipedia, not to Google. And to be honest, since it is in its first day, it must be compared to Wikipedia in its first days.