Other than that, nobody should care. Copying is how humanity has progressed over history.
So called "intellectual property" is an oxymoron, it is not compatible with either real private property or free markets, while benefiting just a few at the expense of everyone else.
Honeywell is using them precisely the way they are meant to and the way they have always been used through history, from the steam engines to Apple.
Yes, patents are supposed to encourage innovation, but by creating monopolies they archive precisely the opposite.
He should be complaining about how stupid and counterproductive the so call intellectual property system is, not about some other company that is not Apple doing what Apple and almost everyone else has been doing all along.
> They even petitioned the government to provide monoplistic protection.
That is *precisely* what a patent is: a government granted and enforced monopoly.
Boggles the mind how anyone thinks patents are a good way to encourage innovation, monopolies hate innovation. And patents have a very long track record of being used to keep whole industries from making any progress, from the steam engine to aircrafts.
This is one reason why I love Go, it is more safe than C while it actually removes layers of complexity, it doesn't even depend on libc and its stdlb is extremely clean and lean.
The amazing thing is that even before the first stable release is out quite a few organizations are using Go in production to run real systems. Very impressive:
People have not learned anything from the history of the internet, and keep trying to build new generations of the same old walled gardens people abandoned long ago.
Should have studied history a bit more closely, if you build your business (or career) on proprietary technology controlled by somebody else you will get screwed sooner or later.
Microsoft has dumped their developers overboard many times before, and will continue to do it as long as it is convenient. At least in this case they are replacing things with relatively open standards that they can't so easily kill later on.
Flash developers are starting to learn this the hard way too, apple developers will be next.
That said, I thank all deities ever dreamed up that CSS is not an an XML dialect, the semantics are a mess, but at least its got a minimally sane syntax, which is quite a rarity this days (JSON is another rare exception).
There are many more hundreds of billions in indirect costs, how much is worth all the harassment of innocent citizens by the TSA? Much more than you might think when millions of people start to avoid flying because it is not worth the hassle. Or the cost to tourism from all the people that just don't want to be humiliated to visit the US.
And that barely scratches the surface of all the hidden costs of the so called "War on Terror" and the resulting security circus.
Before displaying your silly prejudices it would be useful if you informed yourself a bit.
Go has pointers but no pointer arithmetic, which allows it to be safe unlike C. Also, Java and pretty much every other 'modern' language has pointers, all objects are passed by reference, but the programmer has no real control over the memory layout of structures and pointers are 'hidden' from the programmer (most of the time) and you are left at the mercy of the design decisions the creators of the language made; this is one of the many reasons why Java sucks so much.
What Go provides you is explicit control over memory layout and whatever you pass things by reference or by value, this is extremely useful for systems programming, and gives the programmer much more clear control over what his code is doing.
And in Europe we are not out of the woods on that topic either, they are still trying to enact software patents, and companies with failed business models rarely give up on trying to enlist the help of the government to crush their more productive competition using the legal system.
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> Small children can detect the difference between these two scenarios; but to some people they are equivalent. I have no clue why that that is.
It is because they are lawyers and politicians. They are impervious to logic or reality.
Everyone else, once they think a bit about it, can see that "intellectual property" is an oxymoron.
The thrill of the TSA circus!
Other than that, nobody should care. Copying is how humanity has progressed over history.
So called "intellectual property" is an oxymoron, it is not compatible with either real private property or free markets, while benefiting just a few at the expense of everyone else.
Exactly, patents are government granted monopolies by definition and by design.
Honeywell is using them precisely the way they are meant to and the way they have always been used through history, from the steam engines to Apple.
Yes, patents are supposed to encourage innovation, but by creating monopolies they archive precisely the opposite.
He should be complaining about how stupid and counterproductive the so call intellectual property system is, not about some other company that is not Apple doing what Apple and almost everyone else has been doing all along.
So much hypocrisy.
> They even petitioned the government to provide monoplistic protection.
That is *precisely* what a patent is: a government granted and enforced monopoly.
Boggles the mind how anyone thinks patents are a good way to encourage innovation, monopolies hate innovation. And patents have a very long track record of being used to keep whole industries from making any progress, from the steam engine to aircrafts.
How many times do we need to repeat "Security Circus"?
Given all the TSA has got away with so far, it is clear they can do whatever the fuck they like and face no consequences at all.
The Java is too fundamentally broken to be fixed, the world would be better off if it was completely deprecated.
This is one reason why I love Go, it is more safe than C while it actually removes layers of complexity, it doesn't even depend on libc and its stdlb is extremely clean and lean.
J2EE is as close to a cancer as software can become.
Java has become exactly what it was meant to become: The new COBOL.
The amazing thing is that even before the first stable release is out quite a few organizations are using Go in production to run real systems. Very impressive:
http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go
People have not learned anything from the history of the internet, and keep trying to build new generations of the same old walled gardens people abandoned long ago.
Should have studied history a bit more closely, if you build your business (or career) on proprietary technology controlled by somebody else you will get screwed sooner or later.
Microsoft has dumped their developers overboard many times before, and will continue to do it as long as it is convenient. At least in this case they are replacing things with relatively open standards that they can't so easily kill later on.
Flash developers are starting to learn this the hard way too, apple developers will be next.
Java programming and bureaucratic standards, with some luck they will catch soon up with the level of C++ insanity.
The government should not be in the business of granting and enforcing private monopolies. The only economy that benefits is that of lawyers and other parasites.
...about [web] standards is that there are so many crappy ones to choose from.
That said, I thank all deities ever dreamed up that CSS is not an an XML dialect, the semantics are a mess, but at least its got a minimally sane syntax, which is quite a rarity this days (JSON is another rare exception).
I think *BSDs will be quite happy to be "left behind" by Poettering.
It is thanks to Poettering and his creations that I have been seriously considering switching back to OpenBSD from Linux.
I agree, and it will give *BSDs another competitive advantage.
The average quality of the software available for *BSD will go up, and the amount of bloat will go down. Win, win.
There are many more hundreds of billions in indirect costs, how much is worth all the harassment of innocent citizens by the TSA? Much more than you might think when millions of people start to avoid flying because it is not worth the hassle. Or the cost to tourism from all the people that just don't want to be humiliated to visit the US.
And that barely scratches the surface of all the hidden costs of the so called "War on Terror" and the resulting security circus.
What on earth could go wrong... *facepalm*
But I guess it still beats the shit of the disease that is Flash.
Before displaying your silly prejudices it would be useful if you informed yourself a bit.
Go has pointers but no pointer arithmetic, which allows it to be safe unlike C. Also, Java and pretty much every other 'modern' language has pointers, all objects are passed by reference, but the programmer has no real control over the memory layout of structures and pointers are 'hidden' from the programmer (most of the time) and you are left at the mercy of the design decisions the creators of the language made; this is one of the many reasons why Java sucks so much.
What Go provides you is explicit control over memory layout and whatever you pass things by reference or by value, this is extremely useful for systems programming, and gives the programmer much more clear control over what his code is doing.
> its time to start ignoring the laws.
As Ian Clarke said in an /. comment many years ago:
"It is the responsibility of every citizen to ignore dumb laws."
And as dumb as most laws are, this kind of tax reaches a new level of idiocy.
Interestingly at Canonical they are starting to use Go for their backend infrastructure.
I wonder if they will start to replace components of the grid stack with stuff written in Go like Doozer.
But, but, but... think of Miguel's ego!
After the total disaster that was Bonobo, what will he do if Mono fails too?
Lets hope he can get a proper job at Microsoft and leave Linux alone.
All patent systems are hopelessly fucked, software patents just make this patently (haha) obvious.
And in Europe we are not out of the woods on that topic either, they are still trying to enact software patents, and companies with failed business models rarely give up on trying to enlist the help of the government to crush their more productive competition using the legal system.