I did read the story which is how I know it's just making shit up. There is no DRM here or enforcement and as such the summary is a complete load of crap.
So you'd rather have companies never disclose this information at all by hiding them indefinitely as trade secrets? There are many things wrong with the patent system, but to block them entirely would lead to less propagation of information into the public domain.
No, it would only end patents for small inventors because they wouldn't have the money to do the exhaustive searches to find any and all prior art or to pay the fines. On the other hand, huge behemoths like IBM or Microsoft would have little issues as they have huge groups of devoted staff to be used for this purpose. And if they did happen to misfile a patent, the fine would be peanuts to them.
Of course if you really were unable to find the prior art and did the required level of due diligence in looking for it then they won't be able to prove you knew about it, so you won't get convicted and hence won't get fined.
You mean like how if you are innocent of a crime that you are never wrongfully accused and convicted? Yeah, that never happens.
Sure in an ideal world that is the purpose that patents would serve, but in the real world patents are used by bigger corporations to bully around any smaller competitors.
Counting on Ray Ozzie to come to Lotus' defense is a fool's errand, though. Like all the once-luminary personalities that got bought by Microsoft, he belongs to them and will serve their interests instead of our own.:-)
Because Ray Ozzie never served his own interests until he got to Microsoft? Yeah right.
Yes, if you screw up you will have bad consequences happen. This is why programmers at these companies are constantly tweaking their algorithms. It's not as if they just start these computers up and forget about them.
No I don't lack any reading ability at all. He was trying to claim that because there are high costs of entry that somehow it's not a free market which is false. Certain types of activities have more expensive infrastructure costs. That's just the way it is. That doesn't make it any less of a "free market". The notion of a "free market" has to do with being able to freely exchange goods without government intervention not that anyone and everyone can necessarily start a business in any field they want.
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I did read the story which is how I know it's just making shit up. There is no DRM here or enforcement and as such the summary is a complete load of crap.
This isn't DRM. It's some html tags that do all of jack and shit.
It applies to contractor's computers too.
And? Any use of government property or information falls under whatever rules the government wants to set for its use.
Did you even bother to read the Ars Technica article to see what the GP was talking about?
You actually expect either the submitter or the editor to read the article instead of just mischaracterizing the story by just making shit up?
Even so, information is leaked by people, not P2P software.
But if they weren't able to run the P2P software in the first place it would have had a 0% chance of being leaked to Limewire.
Yes. It is their property and they can set whatever rules they want on its use.
Then you never saw the flamefests that happened on lklm
Copying (downloading) music for personal purposes is considered fair use in many if not all European countries.
That's great. Care to explain when Boston, Massachusetts became part of Europe?
Until one of these things can give me a full 1024x768 or better display
Only XGA? What is this? 1990?
Because I don't wear my phone?
No. That would be coincidental not ironic.
Nope, they're just not used to seeing dirty, uncut cocks.
This submission was posted by sampenzus which means it's just more idle crap polluting the front page.
So you'd rather have companies never disclose this information at all by hiding them indefinitely as trade secrets? There are many things wrong with the patent system, but to block them entirely would lead to less propagation of information into the public domain.
Exactly, as the bigger corporation would just file a counter-suit to invalidate your patent.
No, it would only end patents for small inventors because they wouldn't have the money to do the exhaustive searches to find any and all prior art or to pay the fines. On the other hand, huge behemoths like IBM or Microsoft would have little issues as they have huge groups of devoted staff to be used for this purpose. And if they did happen to misfile a patent, the fine would be peanuts to them.
Of course if you really were unable to find the prior art and did the required level of due diligence in looking for it then they won't be able to prove you knew about it, so you won't get convicted and hence won't get fined.
You mean like how if you are innocent of a crime that you are never wrongfully accused and convicted? Yeah, that never happens.
Sure in an ideal world that is the purpose that patents would serve, but in the real world patents are used by bigger corporations to bully around any smaller competitors.
Counting on Ray Ozzie to come to Lotus' defense is a fool's errand, though. Like all the once-luminary personalities that got bought by Microsoft, he belongs to them and will serve their interests instead of our own. :-)
Because Ray Ozzie never served his own interests until he got to Microsoft? Yeah right.
Yes, if you screw up you will have bad consequences happen. This is why programmers at these companies are constantly tweaking their algorithms. It's not as if they just start these computers up and forget about them.
No I don't lack any reading ability at all. He was trying to claim that because there are high costs of entry that somehow it's not a free market which is false. Certain types of activities have more expensive infrastructure costs. That's just the way it is. That doesn't make it any less of a "free market". The notion of a "free market" has to do with being able to freely exchange goods without government intervention not that anyone and everyone can necessarily start a business in any field they want.
Did you even read the part that I quoted from the GGP? He was saying that they were complaining that they got 3 boats INSTEAD OF 2 boats.